A citizens’ rights organization has filed a lawsuit in Carson City District Court seeking an injunction to prevent the enforcement of the “Red Flag” provision of a law passed by Nevada lawmakers earlier this year. Under the Red Flag section of the law persons accused of being a potential danger to themselves or others may have their firearms confiscated by order of a … [Read more...]
Nevada’s Rising Poverty Population Results in Unmet Legal Needs
By Riley Snyder, The Nevada Independent Despite often-touted improving jobs numbers and a sinking unemployment rate, many Nevada residents are still suffering from the financial crash of 2008. Case in point: a survey conducted last year by a Nevada Supreme Court commission found that households with income less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level have a total of … [Read more...]
Let the Voters Decide on Sanctuary Cities Petition
Sometimes it seems the argument boils down to: Those darned voters just aren’t smart enough to figure it out. That notion was never stated but seemed to linger in the background this past week at the Nevada Supreme Court during arguments about whether an initiative petition should be allowed to appear on the ballot, if enough signatures can be gathered. The Prevent … [Read more...]
Nevada Court Rightly Upholds Public Right to Know
The Nevada Supreme Court has made it clear that public officials cannot skirt the state public records law by using privately owned electronic devices to conduct the public’s business. This past week the court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that rejected a request for records from Lyon County commissioners because those records were not stored on devices owned … [Read more...]
Fallacious Supreme Court ruling probably dooms commerce tax referendum
Though anyone capable of signing a petition with anything other than an “X” understands that a vote to repeal a tax would require lawmakers to either cut spending or find revenue elsewhere, the Nevada Supreme Court in its infinite pettifogging wisdom ruled this past week that Nevada voters are just too darned dimwitted to understand this and must be lead by the nose. The … [Read more...]
Lawsuit challenges practice of state gifts to private companies
Earlier this month the Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments on procedural matters in a case that seeks to have declared unconstitutional the state’s practice of handing out gifts to businesses that agree to operate in Nevada and create jobs. The plaintiff in the case is Michael Little, owner of a company that converts recycled landscape trimmings into biomass, a renewable … [Read more...]