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The Securities and Exchange Commission is getting involved in a dispute between members of the board of directors of Wynn Resorts Inc. One board member, a Japanese casino mogul who owns 20 percent of the Las Vegas-based company, recently sued Wynn Resorts over a $135...

The Nevada Supreme Court recently rejected a motion filed by a funeral home that argued that a lawsuit filed against the company by a family who endured what it says was a disastrous funeral that included the body falling out of the casket into the grave. The top...

A company that invests in motion picture production firms is suing one of the companies it invested in for $44 million. The breach of contract lawsuit claims that Relativity Media defrauded the plaintiff, Aramid Entertainment, and wiped out its investment, partly due...

The Las Vegas casino giant Wynn Resorts has asked the Clark County District Court in Nevada to dismiss a suit by its largest shareholder after Wynn denied the shareholder the chance to view certain financial records. The shareholder is a resident of Hong Kong and owns...

Depending on whom you believe, prominent Nevada businessman and lobbyist Harvey Whittemore is either uses his companies' finances as his personal bank account, or he is the victim of unwittingly getting into business with an unscrupulous family with criminal ties that...

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...