The opinion from the Nevada Supreme Court stems from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed she was subject to a “demeaning and humiliating” strip search while visiting a Nevada prison.
Katelyn Newberg
Katelyn Newberg began covering the courts and legal affairs for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in October 2021. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
The Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to hold an investigator in contempt of court for refusing to testify in a preliminary hearing more than two years ago about the Alpine Motel Apartments fire.
Two New Mexico tourists were killed in the crash on Wednesday evening near the Fremont Street Experience.
A former human resources employee filed a federal lawsuit this week accusing the Raiders of discriminating and retaliating against her.
Prosecutors on Wednesday dismissed charges against a woman arrested in 2019 in connection with her 2-month-old son’s death.
A woman accused of a crash that killed her two nieces appeared in North Las Vegas Justice Court. The mother of the girls remains hospitalized.
Judge James Wilson said that the board did not give the proper amount of notice to victims’ families prior to the meeting, although he allowed that the board did have the power to commute death sentences.
Nearly three years after the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas history, a complex lawsuit involving dozens of plaintiffs could be nearing a resolution.
The Washoe County district attorney’s office moved Friday to stop the Nevada Board of Pardons from commuting the death sentences of all 57 prisoners on death row.
A change in the court calendar approved by the Clark County Commission takes effect in January.
Officials said a member of an international criminal enterprise was sentenced in Las Vegas to more than three years in prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme.
Criminal proceedings for the former UNLV basketball recruit had been on hold while attorneys waited on a Nevada Supreme Court ruling.
A 23-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole on Wednesday for killing a 5-year-old boy she was babysitting.
A former Nevada U.S attorney previously convicted of failing to pay taxes was again accused of failing to pay taxes in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Jonathan Risse-Santos pleaded guilty in February to charges of attempted receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.