LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court says a state court judge will continue to handle a lawsuit headed for trial involving billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and a former Sands China Ltd. chief executive.
The ruling issued Wednesday is a blow to Sands and Adelson, whose lawyers argued that Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez had a conflict of interest and should be removed.
Trial had been scheduled June 27, but is being pushed back in a case poised to air boardroom decisions about how Las Vegas Sands developed its lucrative interests in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau.
The high court upheld a supervising judge's ruling that Gonzalez didn't exhibit bias by answering questions for a January story in Time magazine about Adelson's family purchasing the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper.