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Hiring Announcement: Nebraska Law Seeks Civil Procedure Visitor for Spring 2023

LPB Network

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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Midwest Mugshots: Police Records in Nebraska Yield Arresting Images of 19th Century Criminals

JonathanTurley

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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Tarasoff Revisited: Nebraska Court Rejects Liability Of Psychiatrist After Patient Murders Girlfriend

JonathanTurley

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. However, some states have passed laws limiting its impact.

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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial. Other states have minimal standards.

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‘Blood Money’: How Profit Shapes U.S. Incarceration

The Crime Report

In 2020, Utah and Nebraska both voted to delete language from their state constitutions allowing slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment,” Appleman detailed, and says that other states like Tennessee and Minnesota are likely to follow. The full forthcoming paper can be accessed here.

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Victim’s Family in the University of Idaho Murders Appeals Gag Order

JonathanTurley

1030, 1072-1074 (1991), the Supreme Court recognized that “The speech of lawyers representing clients in pending cases may be regulated under a less demanding standard than that established for regulation of the press in Nebraska Press Assn. The Supreme Court rejected that presumption in Nebraska Press Ass’n v. Stuart , 427 U.S.

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Justice Sotomayor References Rarely Used Procedure: Circuit Certification to U.S. Supreme Court

SquirePattonBoggs

Nebraska , without a standing quandary or this term’s Acheson Hotels v. That case arose in the crosshairs of a complex and changing area of criminal law. Laufer case free from mootness. An odd situation confronted the Sixth Circuit in In re Embry. The Supreme Court had granted review of a case, Beckles v.

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