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Las Vegas Sun files federal lawsuit against Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Las Vegas Sun filed a federal lawsuit against the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its owner Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino mogul. The charges allege unfair trade practices on the part of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. 

Review-Journal attorney Benjamin Lipman dismissed the contentions as “baseless” and denied that the Review-Journal, the largest newspaper in Nevada, wants to kill its competition.

Brian Greenspun, head of The Sun, accuses the Review-Journal of trying to starve it of funds and violating a 30-year-old joint operating agreement that has the Sun printed and delivered as a section within the morning Review-Journal. 

The complaint reads, “Unable to financially blot out the Sun, and tired of publishing his only rival, Adelson and the Review-Journal have recently filed a baseless and unlawful claim in Nevada state court seeking to terminate the JOA. Terminating the JOA would effectively kill the Sun.” 

The federal lawsuit alleges the Review-Journal doesn’t allow the Sun to audit financial records and says the Sun has not received a profit payment based on the joint operating agreement since 2017.  The Sun wants a federal judge to order the Review-Journal to stop “abusive, unlawful and anti-competitive practices” and divest itself from the newspaper, and to order the creation of an independent agency or trustee to oversee the non-editorial business of the joint operation. 

The Sun and Review-Journal agreement was renegotiated in 2005 and is scheduled to remain in effect until 2040.  

Erica Thompson

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