Las Vegas Litigation Law Blog

Back on Dec. 13, we discussed the Las Vegas taxicab drivers’ union’s vote to go on strike against the Yellow-Checker-Star company, the second-largest cab company in the city. That strike officially began in March and ended on May 2 when the two sides...

A former employee of a mining company who is accusing the head of the company of forcibly holding him at the president's compound will have his day in court after the federal judge hearing the case declined the defendant's motion to dismiss. The defendant in the case,...

A ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may affect where businesses in Las Vegas must go to court to resolve a dispute over business conducted on a Native American reservation. The 9th Circuit court recently ruled that a Nevada company must sue an Indian...

Two subsidiaries of UnitedHealth Group that conduct business in Nevada have been hit with a total of $500 million in punitive damages in a case related to the medical malpractice of a doctor in their network. The verdict could indicate that health insurance companies...

A Nevada jury has mandated that the state's biggest health management organization (HMO) pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit, which derived from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak. This verdict comes after a $24 million ruling...

After a California Internet entrepreneur's two consulting businesses failed, a billionaire energy executive from Florida bought 17,000 bottles of his premium wine at a 2005 auction in New York. The wine was allegedly worth $3.7 million. Unfortunately about two dozen...

Las Vegas is famous for its restaurants. Besides the gambling, nightclubs and shows, one of the things that attract millions of tourists each year is the chance to eat at a top-flight (and top-dollar) restaurant, perhaps one owned by a celebrity chef like Emeril...

On April 2, we discussed two cases being litigated against Las Vegas Sands Corp. in connection with its casino operations in the Chinese island of Macau. In the case that is currently being tried in a Las Vegas courtroom, a Hong Kong businessman says that Sands failed...

Most business owners in Las Vegas are probably aware that two parties do not legally need to have a written document to have a binding contract. In fact, an oral contract, or an agreement made by spoken words only, can be valid and enforceable in court. However, in...

VirnetX Holding Corp., a Nevada company, is vowing that it will seek a new trial in its patent-infringement dispute with Cisco Systems Inc. over hardware it sold to help clients establish virtual private networks. A jury in Texas found for Cisco in March, but...