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Current Law News
Some of the biggest news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.
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A selection of top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.
A passion for justice drove Boyd Law Alumna of the Year Shane Jasmine Young to become a difference-making lawyer. Now her twin daughters (and fellow Rebels) are following in her footsteps.
The top news stories starring university students and staff.
The Boyd Law professor advocates for the marginalized, one case at a time, through the Survivor Representation & Advocacy Clinic.
Law In The News
This year, the immigrant community in Las Vegas has been rocked by the intensification of ICE detentions (just look at the abrupt closure of Broadacres this summer, for example). But Professor Michael Kagan, who runs the UNLV Immigration Clinic, explains to co-host Dayvid Figler why things are likely to get much, much worse next year — and what we can do in the face of it all.
Attorney Adam Crayk expects immigration enforcement in Utah to get much more aggressive. The recent public arrest at the airport that went viral is just one early indicator.
A federal judge in Nevada could soon decide whether two men — Victor Jacobo-Ramirez and Edgar Guevara-Alcantar, both denied bail under new immigration detention rules — could be the first of hundreds of detainees in the state to win access to long-denied bond hearings. Their emergency legal petition, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, has launched a class action supported by the ACLU of Nevada and the UNLV Immigration Clinic.
The ACLU of Nevada is taking the federal government to court over a new immigration detention policy they say is unlawful and strips immigrants of constitutional rights. The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, along with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and the UNLV Immigration Clinic, filed a class action lawsuit challenging a nationwide policy that bars immigrants who entered the U.S. without inspection from accessing a bond hearing, no matter how long they have lived in the country.
Two men being held by immigration authorities were misclassified by the Department of Homeland Security in a way that doesn’t allow them a chance to bail out as their cases proceed, a break in a decades-long established practice, a federal lawsuit filed in Las Vegas alleges. The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and UNLV’s Immigration Clinic, which are representing the plaintiffs, filed the complaint Thursday.
Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, challengers have filed numerous lawsuits to oppose actions taken by his administration, echoing the wave of suits filed during Trump’s first term against policies such as the travel ban. But there’s a big difference between 2017 and 2025: This time around, when it comes to opposing the Trump administration in court, Big Law is largely absent.
