District Court has suspended jury trials until at least Jan. 11 and halted all in-person criminal and civil hearings, according to an order announced Tuesday.
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Clark County will halt felony jury trials for the second time this year, less than two months after restarting them under strict pandemic restrictions.
Clark County District Court’s first jury trial since coronavirus restrictions brought the local legal system to a halt in March is set to begin Monday.
Five District Court marshals have recently tested positive for coronavirus, according to a memo obtained Friday by the Review-Journal.
A federal prisoner in Nevada has alleged in a civil rights lawsuit that jailers have mishandled a coronavirus outbreak at a facility in Pahrump.
A federal judge denied motions from Calvary Chapel that would allow it to reopen at 50 percent capacity after the church sued state officials over COVID-19 closures.
The Nevada Supreme Court has denied a petition to free vulnerable and elderly state prisoners because of the coronavirus.
Nevada’s osteopaths filed a lawsuit Tuesday, asking Gov. Steve Sisolak and other state medical officials to lift a ban on the routine prescribing of two existing anti-malarial drugs to treat COVID-19.
Gregory Kerkorian, an heir to the “father of the Las Vegas mega resort,” could die in prison from the novel coronavirus, his lawyers argued in a petition to state leaders.
With most of the Regional Justice Center vacant, all Las Vegas Justice Court cases were heard Friday in one courtroom.