Google is challenging a warrant from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) that asked the company to help get a lead in a homicide case by turning over the data of individuals who searched specific keywords.
Patience Rousseau was labeled a baby killer after her 2018 miscarriage. She was later found innocent. Now Humboldt County has agreed to a $1.6 million settlement.
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The Department of Justice sought to revoke the citizenship of a Nevada resident for the first time in two decades this summer. Legal scholars say a recent push to denaturalize citizens comes with "political flavor."
CCSD said in a statement that it will have no further comment until the review is complete and will update the community on its final decision regarding whether it will reinitiate the use of Flock System cameras.
The 9th Circuit panel wrote it disagreed "with Kalshi's overly broad reading" that the Commodity Exchange Act allows it to offer sports event contracts.
Legislators in an interim judiciary meeting on Tuesday unanimously accepted a recommendation to request a bill be drafted on the issue. It would require agencies that use automated license plate systems to adopt written policies, train authorized users on lawful use and data-protection requirements.
Meta also agreed to pay states even more — Nevada would receive a total of $261 million — if its competitors in the social media industry enter similar agreements.
The company's little-discussed expansion into schools has raised concerns about privacy, including for youth. Emails show a push to keep adding new features.
In a unanimous ruling Monday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said Sigal Chattah's continued leadership of the U.S. attorney's office violated federal law.
The regulatory agency said the prediction market has not completely vacated Nevada; Kalshi attorney calls the probe "a vindictive waste of taxpayer dollars."
U.S. District Court Judge Anne Traum ruled Friday that the Department of Justice efforts to receive an unredacted version of the state's voter registration list was invalid under federal law.
Nevada's prison agency paid $52 million for unanticipated overtime hours over the last year. Leaders say the problem is partly out of their control, even as they are trying new strategies to curb those costs.
Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled Thursday that state prosecutors did not provide enough evidence that the GOP electors had intended to defraud state officials. The state plans to appeal the ruling.
For nearly two years, the developer of the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center has traded legal barbs with the quasi-governmental entity that provides water to companies.
The suit, filed in Clark County District Court in early July, alleges that there were no violations of state ethics laws and that the ethics complaint centered "mostly on unsubstantiated claims."
The Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to force the state to immediately issue decisions on whether crime victims are eligible for compensation.
The Reno office typically has between five and six full-time attorneys overseeing prosecutions. But in the past year, the number of lawyers has dwindled from six to zero.
The lawsuit claims that the police department violates transparency laws by incorporating employees' salaries into the fees they charge the public for accessing documents.