In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Last week the Assembly Education Committee heard Assembly Bill 255, which proposes to change the composition of the Clark County School Board, which oversees the largest school district in Nevada and one of the five largest in the country. In particular, the bill requires that three appointed members be selected by the Clark County Commission, the city of Henderson and the city of North Las Vegas. The number of elected trustees would drop from seven to four, and each would represent a significantly larger district than do current trustees.
Linda Heim knew her dad didn’t plan to wait for the cancer to kill him. For decades, he’d lived in Montana, which they’d thought was one of the few places where terminally ill people could get a prescription to end their life.

Linda Heim knew her dad didn’t plan to wait for the cancer to kill him. For decades, he’d lived in Montana, which they’d thought was one of the few places where terminally ill people could get a prescription to end their life.

Families with young children around the country and in Nevada will be getting more than just the stimulus checks from the recently passed COVID relief bill.

The administration of President Joe Biden announced Monday that it will grant temporary protected status, better known as TPS, to Venezuelans who fled the humanitarian crisis and are already residing in the country.

Maria Ortiz left Venezuela almost four years ago when she realized her job opportunities were nonexistent. Freshly graduated from college with a degree in petroleum engineering, she boarded a plane and traded her dream of a professional career for a better quality of life in the U.S.
New reporting has found that Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) traded stocks for the first time as a member of Congress during March 2020, while Congress was negotiating and voting on the CARES Act.

President Joe Biden is urging Democrats to send nominees for federal district judgeships, and Nevada’s senators are moving quickly to fill two spots considered to be emergency vacancies.

Lawyers working to recover money for the victims of disgraced attorney Robert Graham want more than half of the funds the trustee has on hand for legal fees, records show.
Many taxpayers don’t waste time and file income tax returns before the deadline. While doing so, some complain that the filing process gets painful because the IRS is not responsive to their concerns, or they somehow missed the IRS notice and now face penalties. So, how does the IRS work and what should you do when dealing with them?
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Americans have long suffered decades of increasing income and wealth disparity resulting from failed economic policies and systemic racial discrimination. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed and exacerbated the depth and breadth of these gaps.