In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

The federal government recently enabled Venezuelan migrants to get work permits. Long-term undocumented immigrants are still in limbo.
There’s good news and bad news. According to the National Economic Research Associates, the United States is awash in natural gas, enabling it to meet future corporate demand — if regulators allow companies to build pipelines. The same study says the country can export natural gas while keeping prices low at home.

A challenge to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's powers to protect investors from fraud comes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in another in a series of legal attacks against federal agencies that regulate financial markets.
Lower courts have decided the SEC’s power to seek penalties through in-house enforcement proceedings violates the U.S. Constitution. Another case pending against FINRA says it has too much power.

Long-term donors to the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, Tom and Leslie Thomas, pledged a gift to establish a Small Business Initiatives Endowment Fund, named after them, within the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic.

Major advertisers have been fleeing X, the site formerly known as Twitter, after a series of antisemitic posts from the platform’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk.

Labor made great strides in 2023 with the UAW, Writers Guild, SAG, and local Culinary Union all negotiating historic deals with their industries.
In the latest filing in its suit against FINRA in federal court, the Utah-based brokerage firm disputed the regulator’s claims that a ruling against it could have a dire impact on investors.

With the majority of the young men he believes beat and kicked a Rancho High School student to death already behind bars, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has some decisions to make.

Eight Las Vegas high school students between the ages of 13 and 17 years old were arrested on murder charges in the beating death of a schoolmate that was captured on cellphone video and widely share across social media.

The U.S. Supreme Court released its first formal code of conduct on Monday, announcing that it was taking action after years of outside pressure by gathering already existing rules in one place in order to “dispel” a “misunderstanding” that the justices don’t abide by any ethics rules.

Cars are no longer just a means of transportation. They have become rolling hubs of data communication. Modern vehicles regularly transmit information wirelessly to their manufacturers. However, as cars grow “smarter,” the right to repair them is under siege. As legal scholars, we find that the question of whether you and your local mechanic can tap into your car’s data to diagnose and repair spans issues of property rights, trade secrets, cybersecurity, data privacy and consumer rights.