A week-long trial ended Jan. 31 with a Las Vegas jury granting $100 million in punitive damages against USAA over failing to pay a claim in a 2018 crash.
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Katelyn Newberg joined the Review-Journal's investigative team in February 2025. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter and began covering courts and legal affairs in October 2021. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
An attorney referenced in Gary Guymon’s arrest report is defending a text conversation between the two, and said he is upset he was named in the document.
Matthew Beasley, a Las Vegas lawyer accused of a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is suing the U.S. government and the FBI agents who shot him during an armed confrontation in 2022.
Las Vegas police allege that attorney Gary Guymon conspired with two felons to kill a client while Guymon was under investigation in a sex trafficking case.
Attorney Douglas Crawford, who was disbarred last month, had also been accused of sexually harassing employees.
Kevin Filliger is charged with attempted murder after he was accused of breaking into a woman’s home and shooting her.
A prominent Las Vegas defense attorney and former prosecutor was arrested on charges including solicitation to commit murder and sex trafficking, court records show.
A Las Vegas judge sentenced Shayne Sussman for attacking three different casino employees in August, stabbing two of them.
Yoni Barrios entered a plea of guilty but mentally ill on Thursday, admitting to stabbing multiple people on the Strip in 2022, killing two.
The “Dances With Wolves” actor was indicted in October for the second time in Clark County on charges including sexual assault of a minor.
The Nevada Supreme Court sided with Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter in an order filed Tuesday, allowing his counterclaim to move forward against a woman who has accused him of sexual assault.
A Las Vegas judge scheduled a trial to begin in April over a 2022 Memorial Day shooting prosecutors said was between the Hells Angels and a rival motorcycle club.
The Supreme Court ruled that the initiative, which sought to limit the percentage of fees attorneys could receive in civil cases, was “misleading and confusing.”
Duane Davis, who is also facing a murder charge in connection with the killing of Tupac Shakur, appeared in court Tuesday in a separate battery case.
Duane Davis, who is facing a murder charge in connection with the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, has now been charged with battery by a prisoner, court records show.