The family — as well as some legal experts — contend that Lopez Gomez’s case highlights ICE’s lack of transparency on detainee whereabouts and their safety. Although many aspects about his case are not atypical — such as the manner of his arrest — the rare video footage and his daughter’s testimony shed light on what conditions can be like for ICE detainees in an increasingly tense political landscape.

Judge David Campbell wrote in a 32-page ruling that he is disqualifying Chattah from supervising prosecutions against four people who had challenged their indictments brought after the Department of Justice designated her as the state’s acting U.S. attorney. 

A federal judge in Las Vegas promised to make a decision by the end of the month, which is Tuesday, after oral arguments on a case challenging the legality of acting U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah’s position without Senate confirmation.

Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed a bill that would have blocked ICE activity at schools, although Clark County’s superintendent says she has assurances that such activity will stay off campus.

Treasurer Zach Conine agreed to a settlement in a years-old wrongful termination lawsuit against his office that was set to go to trial later this month. 

In three federal court filings last week, the office argued that President Donald Trump’s administration pursued illegal “personnel maneuvers” that allowed Chattah to remain Nevada’s top federal law enforcement officer after her first stint as the interim U.S. attorney expired.

In the seven years since his release, Frank De Palma has become a voice for the estimated 122,000 people held in solitary confinement across the U.S.

The Resort Corridor Court leaned on stay-away orders to curb crime. But those who worked closely with it said it lacked the resources to address root causes.

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.