Las Vegas Litigation Law Blog

Two members of Congress have proposed a bill that would prohibit employers from discriminating against unemployed job applicants. The proposed federal law has come about after widespread reports in the media of job ad postings that list "must be currently employed"...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's religious discrimination lawsuit against the clothing chain Abercrombie & Fitch. A jury will consider the case at a later date and decide what damages are owed by the...

A woman who survived the recent collision in Nevada of a semi-truck and Amtrak train says that she almost was one of the victims. She awoke in the train car she was assigned to and spent the morning meditating and praying. Then she left the car to clean up...

The Supreme Court refused recently to hear the appeal of a family who had brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Air Force. The Supreme Court upheld the 61-year-old Feres Doctrine in doing so, which is a legal precedent that says that active duty...

Verizon Communications has agreed to settle a lawsuit with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over claims that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Businesses that employ 15 or more employees must comply with the ADA, which says that...

Lawsuits have been filed against the Battle Mountain, Nevada, trucking company by Amtrak and by victims of the recent fiery collision of a semi-trailer truck and a passenger train in Nevada. Amtrak has sued the trucking company for negligence. According to the...

A combined stepped-up effort by Metro Police, the Nevada Highway Patrol, North Las Vegas Police Department, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and the Henderson Police Department over the holiday weekend will aim to keep the roads and highways safe and...

On Friday, a semi-truck crashed into an Amtrak train, killing at least six people and injuring more than 80. The crash happened about 70 miles from Reno, Nevada. Investigators are still going through the remains of two train cars that were destroyed in the fiery crash...

Even though the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a giant class-action sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart could not proceed, litigation related to past sex discrimination is not yet over for the world's largest private retailer. The women who filed...

One of the stars on MTV's hit "Jackass" franchise died in a fiery car accident early Monday morning. Ryan Dunn, 34, was killed in the crash. His passenger, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran, also was killed. Dunn's car left the roadway around 2:30 a.m. and crashed...