Month: January 2012

A lawsuit filed in Nevada against six mortgage companies accuses the businesses of improperly foreclosing on homeowners in the state. The attorneys who filed the litigation on behalf of 16 plaintiffs claimed that the defendants committed elder abuse and fraud. The...

Readers of this blog who live in the Las Vegas area may recall seeing or hearing advertisements for a local strip club that offered a deal on sandwiches from Capriotti's, a sandwich chain, during happy hour at the club. The ads offered patrons a turkey sandwich on a...

Those that deal with patents and patent law are pushing to have Las Vegas, Nevada, be named as a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office branch location.Three other office sites are planned, with Detroit being named one of the sites last year. A patent office in the Las...

A woman who served as chief operations officer of Sunrise Children's Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the charity, claiming that she was fired in  mid-2011 in retaliation for going to her superiors with information that funds were misused and misspent to...

Days after Internet retailer Zappos.com announced that hackers had accessed the personal data of millions of its customers, one customer has filed a potential class-action lawsuit against the corporation and its parent company, Amazon.com. The litigation claims that...

A 31-year-old woman was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison by a federal judge on Jan. 9, following her guilty plea in connection with what authorities described as a scheme to steal money from timeshare owners. The woman, who used to own a telemarketing...

Due to attempted fraud of her employer's workers' compensation insurer, a woman from Maryland was sentenced on Nov. 10 to two and a half years in a Nevada prison, according to state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.The woman began her fraudulent litigation...

A pair of Las Vegas nightclubs are accusing the Tropicana Las Vegas of hiring three of their former executives to work for the casino's new club in violation of the executives' employment contracts. The clubs, Chateau and Gallery, have filed a breach-of-contract...

A man who used social media websites to sell allegedly fraudulent investment items is facing federal charges, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced. The SEC investigation into the investment advisor's activities shows how difficult it can be to...