Local criminal justice advocates and lawyers say that Alexandrovich’s departure shows a flaw in Nevada’s bail system, allowing people to skirt around the legal system.

The DOJ conditions were placed on funding from the Victims of Crime Act, which provides more than a billion dollars annually to states for victim compensation programs and grants that fund victim assistance organizations.

The First Judicial District Court has only two judges and no public access to online court documents or hearings. Frustration over the lack of transparency on some of the state’s most important cases led Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) to sponsor AB490, a bill in the 2025 legislative session that would have moved initiative petition disputes to other courts that have electronic access to documents and hearings.

In the Thursday lawsuit, the ACLU said the DMV had failed to turn over correspondence between the agency and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to multiple public records requests since February 2025. After sending a formal demand letter through the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, the Nevada DMV turned over heavily redacted and incomplete documents.

Sebastian Filutowski sold his car last year for cryptocurrency that turned out to be stolen from a Las Vegas man. He lost access to his bank account and the money for the car, igniting a legal saga that just reached Nevada's highest court.

The audit suggested increased enforcement of payroll practices, including training new administrators to oversee payroll practices, as well as bolstering recruitment and retention efforts. The agency said it will work to adopt the recommendations, but similar suggestions from prior studies were never implemented.

In 2022, Chattah and Gilbert filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Reno hospital for allegedly administering the COVID-19 treatment drug Remdesivir, which they said led to a man’s death. A new lawsuit says it wasn't administered.

A Jewish UNLV student’s lawsuit claiming the university, state higher education system and a host of pro-Palestinian groups fostered an antisemitic environment has faced legal setbacks, including a move for sanctions filed at the start of August, but is still pending 15 months after being filed.

Acting U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah appears to have quietly left her position as Nevada's Republican National Committee committeewoman. Department of Justice employees are expected to remain politically neutral.

The yearslong saga over Nevada Republicans’ attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results for Donald Trump continued on Wednesday, with the state’s highest court hearing arguments in a case about whether a lower court’s dismissal of forgery charges should be overturned.

Nevada received a poor grade in a new report comparing financial disclosure reports of state supreme court chief justices, with authors saying the state’s forms fail to seek information about investments, board positions and other matters that could inform the public about potential conflicts of interest. 

Questions are being raised about how a man with a documented history of mental health problems — and a recent arrest for erratic behavior at another casino — ended up working in a security-sensitive job at the Horseshoe Las Vegas casino.

The extension made under the Vacancies Reform Act came before Chattah’s temporary 120-day tenure was set to expire on Tuesday, after which judges for the U.S. District Court of Nevada would have had the opportunity to appoint Chattah or another candidate of their choice to the role.

Shane Tamura, who played high school football in California nearly two decades ago but never in the NFL, had a history of mental illness, police said. Investigators found that Tamura drove across the country to New York over the past few days.

Hotel guests heard several shots coming from the resort’s valet area around 7:30 a.m. The suspect had no known connection to the victims, police said, adding that the motive is unknown.

A coalition of 21 Democratic state attorneys general — including Nevada’s — filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration's restrictions on social services for immigrants in the country illegally.

The Nevada law is going into effect for the first time in 40 years after a federal district judge lifted the temporary pause Tuesday afternoon.

Longtime Nye County District Court Judge Kimberly Wanker filed a petition Wednesday with the state Supreme Court seeking “clarification” as to whether the attorney general’s office is legally required to represent judges subject to complaints brought by the state’s Commission on Judicial Discipline.

Charles Morris filed a federal lawsuit in 2018 accusing several state prison medical officials of “callous disregard for my personal health and wellbeing” after he was repeatedly denied back surgery that a doctor had deemed necessary.

Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley said she supports Las Vegas Metropolitan Police’s decision to enter into a partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), known as 287(g), although she said she didn’t push him one way or the other beforehand on joining the program.