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A lawsuit over a business contract between a Las Vegas real estate developer and the Hualapai Indian tribe will have to continue to be hashed out in tribal court for now, according to a March 19 ruling by a federal judge. The developer had sought to shift the...

A current legal battle between a multi-billion dollar Las Vegas casino company and a Japanese billionaire who financed the business 12 years ago also involves The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a 1977 law that makes it a crime for U.S. companies or executives to bribe...

Fourteen catheter lines used for delivering food and medication in a Las Vegas hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit were found severed over a period of time. In a July 2010 incident, the coroner's office ruled the death of an infant who fell victim to one of these...

Nevada-based Internet shoe company Zappos.com is facing nine class-action lawsuits in the wake of an Internet hacker attack that resulted in the information of millions of customers being stolen. The plaintiffs accuse Zappos and its parent company, online retail giant...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, is suing a Las Vegas company and accusing it of causing a fire that destroyed more than 15 buildings at a Nevada ranch owned by the church. The defendant business, Soil-Tech Inc., stood...

Nevada businessman and one-time political player Harvey Whittemore says that statements he made that were apparent admissions of fraud were made under coercion. In a reply to a lawsuit filed against him in state court, Whittemore accuses the plaintiffs of forcing him...

It appears that Dal Toro, the classic car show/restaurant company, has been stopped in its tracks by a lawsuit filed by Italian car maker Lamborghini. The company, which has a location on the Las Vegas Strip, has settled the suit and agreed to stop using a logo...

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., one of the largest drug makers in the world, has settled more than 80 lawsuits filed by Las Vegas residents that claim the plaintiffs contracted hepatitis C due to the way the company packaged one of its anesthesia products. As...

The founder and CEO of Wynn Resorts Ltd. has responded to a lawsuit filed against his company by its then-largest shareholder with a suit of his own. In a lawsuit filed on Feb. 19, billionaire Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn is accusing the shareholder of using the...

Two former workers at RM Seafood Restaurant are accusing the restaurant's general manager of sexually harassing them and retaliating against them when they complained. The manager denies behaving inappropriately toward the employees and has filed a countersuit...