Nevada

Program helps inmates learn to ‘gentle’ horses at Nevada ranch

Inmates at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center are training wild horses in a “gentling” process that is also benefiting the inmates. Hank Curry, the cowboy who runs the program, “had to kind of gentle me,” says inmate John Harris. He tells the New York Times he first took an aggressive…

Oct 10, 2017 4:22 PM CDT

Emotional distress suit is filed in Las Vegas shooting against makers of ‘bump stocks’

Updated: Three people who witnessed the mass shooting earlier this month at a Las Vegas music festival have filed a would-be class action lawsuit against the makers and sellers of "bump stocks," the device used by the gunman to accelerate gunfire from his semi-automatic weapon.

Oct 10, 2017 3:00 PM CDT

Cases raise questions about adult guardianship and lawyer-hospital relationships

Cases in Michigan and South Carolina are raising questions about lawyers who receive guardianship appointments as a result of their relationships with hospitals.

Oct 10, 2017 7:45 AM CDT

Lawyer whose firm defended casino in Vegas shooter’s tort case says he was ‘slovenly’ and ‘unkempt’

A Las Vegas lawyer whose firm defended a casino in a slip-and-fall case brought by Stephen Paddock says the Las Vegas mass shooter was “slovenly” and didn’t always make sense.

Oct 3, 2017 9:05 AM CDT

OJ Simpson’s lawyer uses the B-word and other vulgarity to describe Florida Attorney General Bondi

A lawyer for O.J. Simpson lashed out at Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday after she opposed the former football star’s move to Florida from Nevada, where he was recently released on parole after serving nine years in prison for armed robbery. Lawyer Malcolm Lavergne said Simpson is “very,…

Oct 2, 2017 3:52 PM CDT

JDs from middle-ranked schools in states with many public colleges may give best investment return

Between 2010 and 2014, net tuition declined the most at middle-ranked law schools, due to merit scholarship patterns associated with maintaining or improving rankings, according to a law review article by Jerome M. Organ, which looks at variable returns on investing in a law degree.

Sep 15, 2017 3:35 PM CDT

Nevada plans to use fentanyl in upcoming execution

Nearly a year ago, Nevada death row inmate Scott Dozier asked to be executed, telling a state court judge he would forego his appeals. A doctor deemed Dozier, who was convicted of the 2002 shooting and dismemberment death of 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller, competent to make the decision. But a problem…

Sep 5, 2017 7:00 AM CDT

$100M investment helps four document technology firms combine into one

The document technology industry is heating up and undergoing consolidation. Litéra, Microsystems, XRef and The Sackett Group will be combined into one yet-to-be named business, according to announcements Monday at the International Legal Technology Association Conference in Las Vegas. According to similar press releases on Litéra’s and Microsystems’’ websites, the…

Aug 15, 2017 4:13 PM CDT

Elderly homeless bank robber wanted to return to prison; Nevada judge obliges

A 77-year-old homeless man who said he robbed a Nevada bank so he could return to prison was sentenced to 15 years on Tuesday. Tommy Ray McAdoo used a steak knife to steal $2,700 from a downtown Reno bank last November, the Associated Press reports. McAdoo has a rap sheet…

Aug 2, 2017 4:11 PM CDT

Condemned to death—and solitary confinement

Arizona death row inmate Scott Nordstrom lives alone in a room smaller than a parking space. He’s allowed to leave his cell a few times each week to shower or exercise alone in a similarly-sized mesh cage and is forbidden from making physical contact with visitors from the outside. But…

Jul 27, 2017 10:27 AM CDT

No one is expected to oppose parole for ‘model prisoner’ OJ Simpson

O.J. Simpson has a good chance of winning parole for his armed robbery conviction during a hearing in Nevada on Thursday, according to one of his former lawyers and other experts. No one is expected to oppose Simpson’s October release, and his good prison record bodes well for for the…

Jul 18, 2017 10:56 AM CDT

Judge orders law firm to pay $3.1M to condo association for negligence enabling contractor fraud

A Nevada judge has ordered a law firm to pay $2.4 million in damages and $700,000 in interest to a homeowners association for failing to supervise an associate who enabled contractor fraud. The law firm, Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw and Ferrario, is now known as Kaempfer Crowell, the Las Vegas…

Jun 30, 2017 2:11 PM CDT

Judge removes photoshopped image of ‘The Rock’ from her campaign website

A Las Vegas municipal judge has removed from her campaign Facebook page a photoshopped image showing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson standing next to her. Heidi Almase is close family friends with Johnson but she didn’t have authorization to post the photo, her campaign manager told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The…

Jun 8, 2017 3:36 PM CDT

Nevada passes modest measures to curb prosecutorial misconduct

Two Nevada laws designed to counter bad behavior by state prosecutors, or at least give some defendants the ability to undo troubling plea agreements, passed last week, although one was substantially gutted under pressure from prosecutors and police. The legislative debate over both laws mentioned the case of Fred Steese,…

Jun 2, 2017 12:35 PM CDT

Judge who ordered handcuffing of public defender is banned from the bench

A Las Vegas judge who ordered the handcuffing of a public defender for refusing to stop talking won’t be able to serve on the Nevada bench anymore. Former Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen already had lost a bid for re-election, and now his ouster is permanent, report the Las…

Mar 1, 2017 3:17 PM CST