In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

In February, Heller declined an invitation from the 51ԹϺ Immigration Clinic to visit with unaccompanied children in Las Vegas from Central America who the clinic represents.

Amid a growing court backlog, many children are still not represented by an attorney in the Las Vegas Immigration Court.

Beneath the Mojave’s blue-velvet night, Allen snapped open two black folding chairs and placed them in his parents’ driveway between the vehicles of family and friends. Exhausted after his shift as a porter at a local casino, he slowly lowered himself onto one of the chairs.

Plans for a massive development twice the size of Summerlin are in big trouble. The problem — in a word — is water.
The regulator will begin conducting reviews within 15 days after a firm applies to register an individual with FINRA, something that was previously done annually.
American labor unions have long been bracing for a “post-Janus” future in which collecting dues would be harder than ever.

American labor unions have long been bracing for a “post-Janus” future in which collecting dues would be harder than ever.

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor.

In Nevada, workers can already opt out of paying union dues and still reap the benefits of better wages and benefits and job security protections negotiated through collective bargaining. But Nevada’s “free rider” status didn’t stop labor organizations in the state from blasting the Supreme Court’s Janus decision as part of a deliberate attempt to destroy organized labor and make it even harder for working people to get by.
Thousands of children separated from their parents after crossing the U.S. border eventually may be reunited, but children’s chances for asylum are slimmer than ever, thanks to a series of recent policy changes under the Trump administration.
Supporters and opponents of organized labor are on tenterhooks this week awaiting a landmark Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME.

Closer to home, it appears some undocumented parents separated from their children at the border have ended up in southern Nevada.