Las Vegas City Attorney Rebecca Wolfson has raised more than $340,000 in a race for Municipal Court, out fundraising all other judicial candidates in the upcoming primary elections.
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Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
The lawsuit was being brought with 30 state and district attorneys general and seeks to break up the monopoly they say is squeezing out smaller promoters and hurting artists.
With the campaign season in full swing, 10 hopefuls pitched their vision for the city’s future to at the “Meet the Candidates” forum in the west valley.
Clark County will likely challenge a district court judge’s decision in the ongoing litigation with Gypsum Resources to the state Supreme Court.
Attorneys rated 89 judges in this year’s Judicial Performance Evaluation, which marks the 13th time since 1992 that the Las Vegas Review-Journal has sponsored the survey.
In the 2019 Judicial Performance Evaluation, Clark County lawyers favored retaining all Nevada Supreme Court justices and all judges on the state’s Court of Appeals.
North Las Vegas only has one municipal judge. He may be failing, according to results from the Review-Journal’s latest Judicial Performance Evaluation.
This is the 13th time the Review-Journal has conducted its Judicial Performance Evaluation since 1992. The results will help voters decide which judicial candidates to support.
The Nevada Legislature passed several bills related to helping victims of domestic violence that were sought by Attorney General Aaron Ford.
The much-debated public records bill that was considered all but dead last week is headed to the governor’s desk, clearing the Nevada Legislature just 30 minutes before the close of session.
The Nevada Legislature passed the first of five budget bills on Sunday, a move that signals the beginning of the end of the 2019 session that’s set to close at midnight Monday.
The full Senate will consider Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro’s bill that would require any organization that gives more than $10,000 in campaign contributions in a given year to file a report with the Nevada secretary of state.
Nevada lawmakers gathered Saturday to remember Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson, who died last month. Two new purple rose bushes in front of the Legislature now honor him.
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen was flanked by a group of local LGBTQ community activists Tuesday when she called on Congress to pass the Equality Act, which she co-sponsors.