Sam Ribakoff

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Sam Ribakoff

NYE COUNTY, Nev. (CN) — Outside the gleaming visitor center at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, a cerulean pool of sparkling spring water bubbles up from the dry earth like a mirage. Located in the Mojave Desert halfway between Death Valley National Park and the town of Pahrump, Nevada, Ash Meadows was once home to tribes like the Southern Paiute and Timbisha Shoshone, who used the springs for farming. Settlers moved in beginning in the late 1800s.

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Sam Ribakoff

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2025 10:15 am A journalist arrested while trying to document a protest outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in 2017 argued Wednesday to a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal panel that he was factually correct when he disagreed with an officer that he couldn’t film on private property and he had a constitutional right to argue. “The principles underlying this case are the facts that a member of the public does have a right to disagree with police and officers are...

1 month ago | ij.org | Sam Ribakoff

The judge halted enforcement only in Southern California counties, leaving border businesses in Texas still subject to reporting all cash transactions over $200. SAN DIEGO (CN) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the government to stop enforcing a new requirement that check cashers, currency exchangers and other money service businesses along the Mexican border report all cash transactions over $200 to federal law enforcement while a lawsuit moves forward in California.

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Sam Ribakoff

The judge halted enforcement only in Southern California counties, leaving border businesses in Texas still subject to reporting all cash transactions over $200. SAN DIEGO (CN) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the government to stop enforcing a new requirement that check cashers, currency exchangers and other money service businesses along the Mexican border report all cash transactions over $200 to federal law enforcement while a lawsuit moves forward in California.

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Sam Ribakoff

(CN) —  A journalist arrested while trying to document a protest outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in 2017 argued Wednesday to a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal panel that he was factually correct when he disagreed with an officer that he couldn’t film on private property and he had a constitutional right to argue.