Criminal defense attorneys have begun to flood the Las Vegas court system with requests for new bail hearings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A coronavirus outbreak behind prison walls could overwhelm the Nevada Department of Corrections, documents analyzed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal showed.
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.
Clark County court officials say they’ve launched a new online system that allows people to apply for temporary protective orders electronically.
Sheriff Joe Lombardo announced Friday that he was releasing up to 290 nonviolent inmates from the Clark County Detention Center because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A group of Nevada defense attorneys joined the call to release certain prisoners in an effort to stave off the spread of coronavirus.
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.
“A virus didn’t close my restaurant, the government did,” local restaurateur Cory Harwell says of a similar claim he’s made with his insurance company.
Advocacy groups are calling for governments to forgo these payments as the response to the coronavirus’ spread causes people to lose their jobs.
With most of the Regional Justice Center vacant, all Las Vegas Justice Court cases were heard Friday in one courtroom.
Nevada U.S. Attorney Nicholas Trutanich on Wednesady appointed a special prosecutor to lead coronavirus fraud investigations.
Starting Friday, all inmates in Las Vegas with District Court hearings are expected to appear via video conferencing, the order signed by Chief Judge Linda Marie Bell stated.
Civil and criminal jury trials in Clark County District Court slated for the next 30 days are being suspended to reduce risk of the spread of the coronavirus at the Regional Justice Center.
The clerk of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page order Tuesday vacating oral arguments in the case on March 23 without explanation. It did not reschedule the hearing.