It doesn't surprise me a bit that this happened in Nevada. That state puts on a good show of being governed by the rule of law, but in fact it is corrupt to its core. And they don't just screw the elderly and the gambling-addicted. I learned this the hard way back in 2011:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2010/12/cosmo-and-me-part-1.html

http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/01/cosmo-and-me-part-2.html

http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/12/cosmo-and-me-part-3-how-w...

And the denouement:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2012/01/i-am-about-to-be-silenced...

The last post is entitled "How Wall Street Screwed Me" because Deutsche Bank was the principal actor, but they could not have done it without the Nevada legal system as a co-conspirator.