October 23, 2026 - 5:42 pm

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a request from the Las Vegas Sun to force the Las Vegas Review-Journal to resume printing and distributing the Sun on an emergency basis.

U.S. District Judge Anne Traum’s decision, which comes six months after a two-day evidentiary hearing and almost seven months after the courts allowed the RJ to stop printing the Sun, also rejected requests by the Sun for the Review-Journal to provide a subscriber list and be prohibited until 2040 from terminating a joint operating agreement the Sun says still exists between the parties.

“Most of the relief that the Sun seeks is unlawful,” the judge wrote.

Traum’s ruling left open the possibility of reviving a long-dormant 1989 joint operating agreement that would require the Review-Journal to print and deliver the Sun as a weekday afternoon newspaper and a part of the Review-Journal’s weekend and holiday newspapers.

The Sun wanted the RJ to once again be forced to carry the Sun insert every day, but the…