Wed Roundup

Congratulations to Robert Eglet, senior partner or Mainor Eglet Cottle, on obtaining a $4.5 million verdict for his client who was injured by a driver who attempted to pass a large tractor trailer on US 95 and struck the client's vehicle head-on. (KVBC)

ACLU is unhappy with a wedding handbilling law that says it's "unlawful" to solicit "any person to be married" while on courthouse property. (Review-Journal)

The Las Vegas Metro Police gang unit is trying to track down the person/people who defaced several restrooms in the Regional Justice Center with gang graffiti. (Las Vegas Sun)

The State Board of Education is taking up to 21 months to revoke the licenses of teachers convicted of crimes, including sex crimes. (Las Vegas Sun)

It's County official criminal charge time: a Nye County Commissioner is accused of bribery (Review-Journal) and in Washoe County a water engineer is accused of forming two bogus companies to sell county water well capacity rights he did not own (Review-Journal).

Members of the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners may soon have to divulge conflicts of interest. (Review-Journal). Meanwhile an editorial says the fact that Shadow Mountain Surgical Center was allowed to continue operating after the facility was found to have infection control problems shows that Nevada doctors are still allowed to flout the rules. (Review-Journal)

The Transportation Security Agency will be using body-scanning machines that generate revealing images of people underneath their clothes at McCarran Intl. Airport. (Review-Journal)

Up in Reno, Federal Judge Loren A. Smith awarded more than $4.2 million to the estate of late Nevada rancher and "Sagebrush Rebellion" private property rights advocate Wayne Hage, ruling that the U.S. Forest Service committed a constitutional "taking" of his water rights during a decades-long dispute over livestock grazing on federal land. (Review-Journal) And an editorial celebrates the now-deceased Mr. Hage's fight for property rights. (Review-Journal)

Fox Rothschild had a big jump in revenue and established a full service office in Las Vegas during 2007. (Law.com)