HowAppealing

MARCH 10, 2021

“Dismissal upheld in Nebraska lawsuit over woman’s slaying”: Margery A. And Brian Flood of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Omaha Mental Health Hospital Not Liable for Murder by Ex-Patient ” (subscription required for full access). Beck of The Associated Press has this report.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 10, 2022

At-will employment states such as Nebraska allow employers to terminate employees at any time, for any reason, except an illegal one, or for no reason without legal consequence, and can result in an employee’s increased fear of reporting bullying or harassment on the job.

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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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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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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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JURIST

JULY 16, 2023

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a heartbeat-based abortion ban into law Friday after the bill passed in a marathon special session of the Iowa legislature. No matter what, we will help our patients be seen in a place that’s most accessible for them, whether it’s in Nebraska, Minnesota, or a state outside of our affiliate.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 17, 2022

* Yale Law responds to the attempt to cancel its students. Fewer folks are applying to be law students in 2023. Live in Nebraska and want to go to law school in order to help people? Also — consider leaving Nebraska. Harvard Law's student body is also getting involved in political activism. News.UNL.edu ].

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Senate Bill 92 “would define man, woman, boy, girl, father, mother, male, female, and sex for purposes of state law” and require state agencies to “identify each individual as either male or female at birth.” If the bill is enacted, Alabama will join Nebraska and Oklahoma in having reproductive-based sex definitions.

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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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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Colorado has become the first state in the country to overturn its preemption law preventing its cities from enacting stricter gun regulations, reports Pew Stateline. Forty-two other states have laws stopping local governments from enforcing strict gun restrictions.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Iowa lawmakers declined to advance a piece of legislation on Wednesday that would have removed gender identity as a protected class under the state’s civil rights law. Tennessee and Florida attracted particular attention for strict laws targeting drag performances and school discussions.

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JURIST

MAY 7, 2023

Current North Carolina law allows abortions up to 20 weeks. If both chambers approve of the bill with a three-fifths majority, then the bill becomes law. Last month, abortion bans in Nebraska and South Carolina failed to pass their respective state legislatures.

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 28, 2021

Leading a law firm throughout the pandemic has been no easy task, but the lessons learned have helped many attorneys position their firms for a more tech-focused, efficient approach to business. Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson talk with Mary Vandenack about how she has managed her law firm through the many changes wrought by the pandemic.

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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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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. The lawsuit also alleges that Biden lacks the authority to forgive federal student loans.

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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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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2023

Idaho Governor Brad Little Saturday signed into law a bill allowing execution by firing squad. Nebraska uses fentanyl for its injections. With the bill signed, Idaho now permits death by lethal injection or firing squad. If it is not, then a firing squad shall be used for execution. Tennessee allows use of the electric chair.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2021

Hassaid to consider a California agricultural union organizing law. ” Under California law, agricultural businesses must allow labor organizations onto their property up to three times a day over a 30-day period, up to 120 days per year. The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Cedar Point Nursery v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Voters across Nevada, Connecticut, Michigan, Arizona, Nebraska and Ohio Tuesday voted on whether to expand or restrict voter access to election procedures. Though there are still unreported votes, Arizona appears poised to reject a law requiring voters to show identification before casting a ballot.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 13, 2022

The Senate bill would expand background checks for gun buyers under 21 and encourage states to enact so-called red-flag laws, which allow guns to be confiscated from individuals likely to cause harm to others or themselves. It will be the most significant gun safety legislation passed in Congress in years if it becomes law.

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

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

Senate Bill 195 amends the state’s indecent exposure law to criminalize engaging in “obscene matter.” The proposed law specifically includes “any transvestite and/or transgender exposure, performances, or display to any minor” in this definition.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

. * Beware of scrubs : A new California law may mean you better make sure your friend stays in the passenger side of the rental. [ The future of abortion rights are unclear in Nebraska. appeared first on Above the Law. SF Gate ]. * Omaha ]. * The post Morning Docket: 02.25.22

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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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JURIST

MAY 25, 2024

JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. However, delegates representing states like Nebraska, Iowa, and Indiana expressed concerns about the economic consequences and potential government censorship. He filed this dispatch from Phoenix.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2024

The group claimed that the law will help “to preserve single-sex spaces that are important for privacy, safety, and equal opportunity.” ” Other state-led efforts to define similar terms recently advanced through Alabama , Nebraska and Oklahoma —with the latter two efforts having passed into law.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Authorities allege that Google’s collection of location information violated the participating states’ consumer protection laws because “ Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect their location information.”

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

New Consumer Law Rights Taking Effect in 2023 National Consumer Law Center “NCLC”, summarizes significant changes in the consumer rights laws. This NCLC article lists federal and state consumer law rights scheduled to go into effect or expire, during the period from November 17, 2022, through December 31, 2023.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

The bill explains, however, that individuals with “intersex conditions” or “differences in sex development” must be accommodated in compliance with state and federal law. Alabama is one of 23 states , including Louisiana and Texas , that have enacted laws criminalizing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He relied on the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (known as the HEROES Act), a law passed in the wake of the Sept. Six states, led by Nebraska, went to federal court in Missouri to challenge the program. Brown , along with Biden v. The debt-relief plan will remain on hold in the meantime.

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2023

The newly uncovered gifts included skybox tickets to University of Nebraska football games, private flights to resorts owned by his benefactors and golf club initiations valued at $150,000. “Would billionaires have given Justice Clarence Thomas massive gifts if he was just a law clerk?” The report specifically names H.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia joined Yost in the lawsuit. . Federal law prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion—and that law means means nothing if the federal money isn’t kept separate. That, frankly, is the real reason behind the rule.”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The state of Tennessee is joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Ebrahim is visiting at Iowa Law this semester, where he’s teaching Cybercrime & Security and Entrepreneurship Law & Ethics. His research interests are broad, and he recently completed a comparative work examining patents in Islamic law. patent law. First, Islamic law does not explicitly recognize patents.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Is this just Nebraska's strange way of incentivizing same-sex marriage?

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued Idaho Wednesday to prevent the enforcement of its law criminalizing doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors. Idaho Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 71 into law in April. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2024.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont have now joined Colorado, Nebraska and Utah in approving similar legislative language. . Massachusetts and Washington state officials this year worked on guaranteeing ballot access for incarcerated voters.

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