All the legal news that's fit to blog:
UNLV will double law school tuition for residents and non-residents for 2009-10 (In Business Las Vegas) I guess when you break into the top 100 of law school rankings, you make the law students pay.
Congratulations to Dustin Clark on being hired on as an associate by Fisher & Phillips. [not bad Dustin, not bad] (Review-Journal)
News that Lake Mead will be dry by 2013, will probably start the next round interstate water rights litigation and Mayor Goodman leads the charge saying Vegas will just take California farmer water if it has to. (MyDesert.com)
The ACLU is challenging Nevada's new petition rules in federal court as Unconstitutional (Nevada Appeal). Sounds a lot like last time the Ninth Circuit struck down our petition rules (Review Journal).
In the meantime, Judge Maddox in Carson City tossed an ballot initiatives on this year's ballot allowing voters to choose whether to tax casinos to fund schools in the state because the ballot measures did not comply with state law (Reno Gazette-Journal)
And the Nevada Supreme Court held that the intent to felony inherent in felony murder must occur before the killing, reversing Justice Saitta's decision when she sat on the District Court that intent to rob after a killing can form the intent needed for felony murder (Nevada Appeal)
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