Month: November 2012

Each year the frenzy of holiday shoppers storming retailers' doors in Las Vegas on Black Friday means holiday dollars -- and sometimes lawsuits. Last year in the U.S., 20 people were injured in one major retail store while two more were shot in a parking lot. With...

A 63-year-old Las Vegas man has been charged in federal court with leading a business fraud ring with several relatives and other people. The suspect is accused of defrauding owners of timeshare properties into paying fees to have the business sell those timeshare...

A lawsuit between a village in another state and the former owners of a car dealership demonstrate how entering into business agreements with local governments in Nevada can be tricky. The two sides in the business litigation have settled the case, with the owners of...

Back on Nov. 8, we brought readers in Las Vegas the story of oil giant BP reaching a settlement with businesses and individuals who say they were harmed by the 2010 Gulf Coast oil spill. That settlement, which needs to be approved in federal court, would distribute...

Most businesspeople in Nevada who do business internationally know that bribery is common in certain countries. Federal law has long prohibited U.S. companies from bribing foreign business or government officials, but only recently has the government begun to strongly...

A new trend in children's entertainment is the trampoline park. These businesses offer huge rooms made up of springy surfaces that allow visitors to bounce and leap into the air. One such trampoline park is Sky Zone in Las Vegas. While Sky Zone is successful, some...

A proposed financial settlement of the thousands of lawsuits filed against oil giant BP is before the federal judge overseeing the massive litigation. At a hearing on Nov. 8, attorneys for BP and plaintiffs' attorneys who were part of the negotiation asked the judge...

Righthaven LLC may now be more of an "idea" than an active business, as its owner and CEO recently put it. However, it will live to fight another day in court after a federal judge rejected an attempt to have the CEO fired and the numerous copyright infringement...