JURIST - Nevada

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada (ACLU-NV) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a state law criminalizing consensual sex between same-sex teenagers. The state law characterizes same-sex intercourse as a "crime against nature," and violation of the law carries a possible five-year pris....... [more]

The Coalition for the Protection of Marriage, a non-profit corporation in Nevada which opposes same-sex marriage, petitioned the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to grant a writ of certiorari to determine "whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause requires Nevada to change its definiti....... [more]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Nevada on Monday denied a challenge brought by eight same-sex couples who contended that the state's law restricting marriage to heterosexual couples violates the US Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. In their lawsuit, Sevcik v. Sandoval ....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Gerard Dondero, University of Nevada William S. Boyd School of Law Class of 2013, argues that while the recent New York district court decision in US v. Dicristina represents a change in the legal analysis of games of skill, most US states still utilize outdated judicial stand....... [more]

National gay rights advocacy group Lambda Legal on Tuesday filed suit on behalf of eight same-sex couples against the state of Nevada claiming that the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. Many of the couples, including two wom....... [more]

On November 14, 2008, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that tribal sovereign immunity applies to lawsuits brought in federal court concerning the profit-making businesses of Native American tribes. In Cook v. Avi Casino Enterprises, Christopher Cook filed suit against the tribal c....... [more]

On November 7, 2006, four US states approved ballot measures that either banned smoking in many public places or raised taxes on tobacco. Voters in Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio approved comprehensive anti-smoking measures, over less-restrictive versions of the laws that had been favored by the food and....... [more]

On September 30, 2008, a judge for the US District Court for the District of Nevada invalidated Nevada's County Population Rule as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. The order stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) and the American Civ....... [more]

The Serbian government filed an amicus curiae on Friday in a Nevada court seeking to block the execution of a Serbian citizen on the grounds that the country's consulate was not informed of the man's arrest in 1994. Serbia contends that Avram Nika, convicted of killing of a man who had stopped to he....... [more]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday dismissed a case brought by Washington state, South Carolina and other local governments challenging the Depart of Energy (DOE) failure to make a permanent nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The plaintiffs, respo....... [more]

The US Supreme Court Monday ruled in Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan that a Nevada ethics law that requiring government officials to recuse themselves from votes where they have a conflict of interest is constitutional. The Nevada Ethics in Government Law requires government officials to rec....... [more]