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A car accident triggered a rescue effort by helicopter. Then a second accident, much worse than the first one, ended four lives and left a young woman with a lifelong injury.The second accident is the subject of lawsuits filed by the families of the...

She owns three cupcake shops in Las Vegas. He owns three in Texas.She's his niece and he's her uncle. They used to be business partners, but now they're on opposite sides of business litigation. Pamela Jenkins owns the trio of Cupcakery stores in the Las Vegas metro...

A Las Vegas businessman claims he's been defrauded by a man in Utah who is already the subject of a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that he's scammed consumers out of $275 million.The Las Vegas businessman is in his newly filed litigation asking the court...

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Ford Motor Company and Firestone were linked to deadly rollover crashes involving Ford's SUVs and Firestone's tires.Those crashes spurred the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and other federal government agencies to pursue...

Actress Eva Longoria got a double dose of bad news this week in separate courtrooms.A partner in her Las Vegas restaurant is suing the "Desperate Housewives" star for allegedly breaking California's usury law. Longoria is facing litigation from the same business...

The Nevada Supreme Court flattened Goodyear's request to reconsider its ruling upholding a $30 million judgment against the tire company in a wrongful death and personal injury lawsuit.By a 6 to 1 margin, the state's highest court upheld the award in a 2004 case in...

We have written before in this space about the heavyweight Las Vegas legal battle between Palms hotel-casino President George Maloof and nightclub and restaurant operator Michael Morton.The two recently announced their litigation has ended in an "amicable and mutually...

A Las Vegas slot machine company could pay out millions of dollars if it loses a case to be heard next week in oral arguments before the Nevada Supreme Court.At the conclusion of civil litigation, a Clark County court ordered ETT Inc. to pay $6.1 million to the...

Last week we looked at the increasing number of discrimination lawsuits against employers. We examined statistics from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which showed an increase in discrimination lawsuits over the last three years. Increases will likely...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently released their statistics from 2010. The numbers don't look good for employers. Discrimination lawsuits have risen for the last three years in a row, and 2010 set a new record. The report states that US companies...