The Crime Report

JULY 11, 2022

Nebraska is now in year three of a prison overcrowding crisis after being forced to declare an emergency for violating federal rules limiting populations to 114 percent of design capacity in 2020, reports PNS. Nebraska prisons were operating at 141 percent of design capacity in 2020 when the emergency became official.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Monday announced he would not call a special session of the state legislature to pass a restrictive abortion ban. Without sufficient support in the state senate, Ricketts is unable to change Nebraska’s current 20-week abortion ban to a 12-week ban. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 10, 2021

“Dismissal upheld in Nebraska lawsuit over woman’s slaying”: Margery A. You can access Friday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Nebraska at this link. You can access Friday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Nebraska at this link. Beck of The Associated Press has this report.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“Appeals Court Reverses Conviction of Former Nebraska Congressman; Former Representative Jeff Fortenberry had been convicted on charges of lying to the federal authorities. An appeals court said his trial was in the wrong venue”: Heather Knight of The New York Times has this report.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Thirty-two currently operate across Nebraska, but only 4.2 percent of felony offenses are dealt with by these courts, according to Nebraska Supreme Court Judge Jeff Funke. One obstacle highlighted at the hearing: problem-solving courts are staffed on a volunteer basis by district judges with their own significant caseloads.

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HowAppealing

MAY 20, 2021

” Sadly, that question became even more pertinent in February 2021, when Jessica Wade of The Omaha World-Herald had an article headlined “ Woman convicted in 1998 Bellevue slaying dies in prison at 40.” ” Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

“Nebraska direct warning waiver applies to medical devices in Teva IUD case — 8th Circ”: Brendan Pierson of Reuters has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued yesterday.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 18, 2022

“A Mother, a Daughter and an Unusual Abortion Prosecution in Nebraska; Private Facebook messages are key evidence in a rare case that has stoked fears and inflamed debate over abortion restrictions”: Shaila Dewan and Sheera Frenkel have this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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LegalReader

JUNE 24, 2022

A minor has no say in this under Nebraska laws. Does the child’s opinion matter?

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The Crime Report

JULY 20, 2023

Nebraska non-profit ‘Justice in Action’ is pushing for a $1 million increase to the Lancaster prison budget to be used for rehabilitation and diversion programs rather than boarding contracts, Matt Chibe reports for ABC.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Wednesday rejected a request from a group of medical marijuana supporters to block a provision in Nebraska’s constitution that establishes a signature requirement for ballot initiatives. A district court granted a preliminary injunction, but the Eighth Circuit reversed.

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LPB Network

MARCH 21, 2022

Here is the announcement: The University of Nebraska College of Law is looking for visiting professors for 2022-23. We are accepting letters of interest from professors to teach criminal law and/or contracts in fall 2022. We are also accepting letters.

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Mondaq

MAY 3, 2022

State AG Pulse - Season 1, Episode 2: In this week's episode, we get an insider's perspective on the Nebraska open seat race and its political and business significance from Meghan Stoppel

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

If passed, Nebraska’s recently proposed Advertising Services Tax Act, which would finance property tax relief by imposing a 7.5%

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Nebraska and Department of Education v. Nebraska today with the statement, “The problem here is the states aren’t the proper plaintiff to bring this suit.” The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments in Biden v. ” During oral argument for Department of Education v. In Biden v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

I recently stumbled across a cache of American mugshots from the Nebraska State Historical Society. The Historical Society discovered the following: “Ruby Fox and Myrtle Hetrick met while incarcerated at the State Reformatory for Women in York, Nebraska. I wanted to share a few.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Live in Nebraska and want to go to law school in order to help people? Also — consider leaving Nebraska. . * Fewer folks are applying to be law students in 2023. This is not entirely bad. We do need more welders. Check out their public interest scholars program! News.UNL.edu ].

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LegalReader

AUGUST 29, 2022

Even an innocent remark about you being tired or upset about something at the time of the crash could be used later on as a pretext to lower the damages you deserve.

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Law 360

APRIL 8, 2024

The Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision finding a meat processor in Nebraska illegally bargained in bad faith with a United Food and Commercial Workers affiliate, backing the board's broad remedies order that included reimbursing the union for negotiating expenses.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Many people who come to the United States from other countries plan to stay long term and earn their full citizenship.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 10, 2022

The A.C.L.U. claims that the federal government has refused to respond to public records requests for two years.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 18, 2023

Justice Clarence Thomas has listed hundreds of thousands of dollars in household income from a Nebraska real-estate firm on his disclosure forms over the last…

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

At the request of Nebraska police, Facebook handed the user data of a mother and daughter facing criminal charges for allegedly carrying out an illegal abortion, burning the fetus and then burying it, reports The Guardian. In Nebraska, abortions are banned after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The teenager is now being tried as an adult.

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Law 360

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Seventh Circuit has revived a tortious interference suit accusing Archer Daniels of shifting ethanol prices downward, disagreeing with a lower court's decision to toss the suit absent directions from the Nebraska Supreme Court on applying state laws.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Two Nebraska-based technology companies say a former Connecticut salesman used the "unauthorized" artificial intelligence program Otter to record meetings, forwarded more than 200 confidential messages to his personal email address and made off with trade secrets for accounts worth $12 million after he was fired for cause on Feb.

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 12, 2022

A Nebraska woman has been charged with performing or attempting an illegal abortion after prosecutors obtained Facebook messages indicating that she had obtained abortion pills…

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MAY 7, 2023

Last month, abortion bans in Nebraska and South Carolina failed to pass their respective state legislatures. Under Article II Section 22 of the North Carolina Constitution, both chambers of the legislature can reconsider the bill. If both chambers approve of the bill with a three-fifths majority, then the bill becomes law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The state attorneys generals of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina alleged in a federal Missouri court that Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is unauthorized and poses economic harm to working class individuals.

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LegalReader

APRIL 8, 2021

Plaintiff John Wizinsky says his PTSD and diabetes have both gotten worse after the riot.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2021

Her parents, Angela Rodriguez and Adan Rodriguez, sued Lasting Hope and Benton’s employer, University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians, but the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the action due to a lack of any legal duty to warn or protect the girlfriend. We have discussed decisions extending Tarasoff.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sometimes, the homeowner finds himself accused of deliberately setting fire to the property or causing other types of damages to claim insurance money.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Truck drivers must undertake specialized training because of the difficult maneuverability and specialized mechanisms in big rigs and tankers.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2023

Nebraska uses fentanyl for its injections. Tennessee allows use of the electric chair. New Hampshire allows death by hanging if the lethal injections are not available. And most other states are turning to different kinds of drugs. Yet other states use various forms of anesthetics and nitrogen hypoxia.

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LegalReader

APRIL 20, 2022

Most insurance policies require you to inform the company of any accident right away.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In response to this latest lawsuit, a regional attorney for the EEOC's St. Louis District Office admitted that the United States still has a long way to go in terms of ensuring workers' rights.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

In 2014, Nebraska created a Vocational and Life Skills (VLS) Program providing funding for the state’s jail population to learn trades to lower the odds of recidivism, reports the Nebraska Examiner. Photo by Austin Kehmeier on Unsplash.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Beyond the physical trauma brought on by a personal injury accident, these incidents leave behind emotional and even mental trauma sometimes for months or even years.

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