[5] In 2011, he was asked by Shoshone tribes of Northern Nevada to maintain a 2009 restriction that protected the region's environment against Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp's wish to expand its gold-extraction operations on their land considered sacred.

[6] In October 2013, he sent Nevada power broker Harvey Whittemore to a two-year prison sentence for making illegal contributions to Harry Reid's campaign in 2007.

[7] In February 2015, he granted a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Land Management's removal of 200 wild horses in Northern Nevada, and the roundup of 166 others with porcine zona pellucida.

[8] In March 2017, he sentenced a man from India to 15 years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks in his homeland from the US.

[11] Hicks died after being struck by a car outside the federal courthouse in downtown Reno, Nevada, on May 29, 2024, at the age of 80.