In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Mother Jones

Back in November 2021, cryptocurrencies, which saw a huge surge during most of the pandemic, suddenly began to nosedive. Joe Hovde, a New York-based data scientist, decided that this might be his moment to buy into crypto: He took a risk on the price plunge and bought some Ethereum, the next most popular crypto asset after Bitcoin, on Coinbase, a crypto exchange. 

Investment News

A major modification to the proposal would allow state regulators to participate in arbitration hearings that determine whether to clear a broker's record of a customer dispute.

Las Vegas Review-Journal En Español

Clark County will investigate The Siegel Group's treatment of tenants during the pandemic after a federal investigation found the landlord engaged in "uniquely egregious" practices to evict residents.

Nevada Lawyer

Networking establishes, builds, and nurtures long-term, mutually beneficial relationships. Experts agree that the most connected people are often the most successful. When you invest in your relationships – professional and personal – it can pay you back in dividends throughout the course of your career. This article will discuss the benefits networking and bar involvement had in building and nurturing the lives of the authors – two first generation Latinas who have become successful attorneys in Nevada.

Verdict

Three new cases of employees against religious employers were decided this past week. There was small good news for the plaintiff in one case, and two more losses by “ministers.”

City Wire

The risky, illiquid investments were sold to recent retirees.

Las Vegas Sun

Police shootings in Las Vegas decreased nearly 50% last year, according to a report recently released by Metro Police — a trend one high-ranking department official said can be attributed to an increase in patrol officers hired in 2021, as well as a revamped approach to how police deal with potentially dangerous subjects.

Mother Jones

On June 30, the Supreme Court handed down its last and virtually only uplifting decision in an otherwise regressive and chilling term. After killing Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion, limiting Miranda Rights protections, and delivering a blow to climate action, the conservative supermajority decided not to add the rights of immigrants to their list of casualties—at least not entirely—and gave a rare win to the Biden administration.

Washington Post

Thousands of miles and circumstances separate a Jewish clergyman based in Maryland and a death row inmate in Texas. But the two men’s lives have become enmeshed through dozens of handwritten letters over the past year. One sticks out to cantor and chaplain Michael Zoosman: a February 2021 response from the Polunsky Unit prison in which Ramiro Gonzales offered to donate a kidney to one of Zoosman’s congregants.

Nevada Independent

Heat deaths have hit a 10-year high in Las Vegas, capping an alarming trend in our increasingly hot climate. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to federal climate change efforts, limiting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Vegas Inc

One of the required courses during a student’s first year at UNLV’s Boyd School of Law is “lawyering process,” a class heavy on legal writing.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Friday, July 1, 2022, 19 new laws will go into effect in the State of Nevada. The changes cover a wide range of issues from eggs to education, minimum wage to telehealth, cancer drug regulation to what’s allowed in gasoline.