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Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo approved Senate Bill (SB) 131 Tuesday, becoming one of the first Republican governors to enshrine legal protections for out-of-state abortion patients and in-state providers. The legislation codifies Executive Order (EO) 2022-08 which was issued by Nevada’s former Governor Steve Sisolak last year. According to EO 2022-08: Nevada stands firm in its [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that US immigration law regarding the reentry of migrants who have already once been removed from the US is “facially neutral as to race,” overturning a lower court’s decision. US officials first brought charges in a Nevada court against Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez under 8 USC [...]

The Nevada Senate Judiciary Committee Friday considered Senate Bill 142, also called the “Homeless Persons’ Bill of Rights.” Mirroring the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights, the Senate bill outlines a set of rights for unhoused people in Nevada. The bill “requires that a person experiencing homelessness be entitled to the same rights, privileges and benefits afforded [...]

The United States District Court for the District of Nevada Tuesday held that a county’s conditional permit regulations for housing exotic animals did not violate the US Constitution. Karl and Kayla Mitchell sued Nye County, Nevada, claiming that the conditions on their exotic animal permits were unconstitutional conditions and constituted a taking of property. The [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported Tuesday that killings of journalists “rose sharply” last year, with 68 journalists being killed in 2022. This is a 50 percent increase from 2021. Of those deaths, CPJ confirmed that 41 were related to their journalistic work. CPJ continues to investigate the other 26 killings to determine if [...]

On December 22, 2022, the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released its 845-page Final Report. The Report described events leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. It also set out information about the individuals who were involved [...]

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 million, multi-state settlement with Google over the company’s location tracking practices. The agreement marks the largest US privacy settlement in history. Authorities allege that Google’s collection of location information violated the participating states’ consumer protection laws because “Google misled its users into thinking they had turned [...]

Voters across Nevada, Connecticut, Michigan, Arizona, Nebraska and Ohio Tuesday voted on whether to expand or restrict voter access to election procedures. Some of the issues addressed in the proposed ballot initiatives and constitutional amendments paralleled issues in the over 100 lawsuits filed leading up to Election Day. In Nevada, with approximately 77 percent of [...]

Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont Tuesday voted on Election Day ballot measures to end the practice of enslavement after criminal conviction. Under the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, slavery and involuntary servitude may not exist “except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” This language [...]

JURIST staffers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are filing dispatches on various aspects of the November 2022 midterm elections in Pennsylvania. Here, Pitt Law 1L Luke Watkins offers a general perspective on the vote and the role mail-in ballots will play in it.  Pennsylvania, the old adage goes, is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia [...]