JURIST - Nebraska

On April 12, 2010, Nebraska's unicameral legislature voted 40-9 to approve the Women's Health Protection Act, a bill that required an elevated level of informed consent and physician assessment of women seeking abortions in the state. The bill required physicians to ascertain whether women have bee....... [more]

On December 19, 2007, leaders of the Lakota people, a part of the Sioux Nation, traveled to Washington and withdrew from the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851 and the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868, forming the independent Republic of Lakotah. These two treaties gave areas of the Black Hills in North D....... [more]

On August 18, 2010, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning announced that he had agreed to a permanent injunction of a Nebraska abortion law because he believed there was little chance that the law would withstand a court challenge. The law, known as the Women's Health Protection Act, would have requ....... [more]

The Supreme Court of Nebraska on Friday struck down a state campaign finance law that contributes state money to certain political candidates in order to lessen financial disparity among candidates. Under the law, candidates for certain public offices could voluntarily accept additional oversight in....... [more]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Nebraska on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by seven state attorneys general challenging new health care mandates in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that require contraception to be covered under all employer health care plans, including those of....... [more]

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, joined by attorneys general from six other states will continue their lawsuit challenging new health care mandates in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that require contraception to be covered under all employer healthcare plans, including....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremy Lipschultz of the University of Nebraska at Omaha says that permitting court proceedings to be televised will enhance transparency in the judicial system and create a more informed and engaged citizenry...The Illinois Supreme Court recently authorized the use of televis....... [more]

On February 27, 2009, the Supreme Court of Nebraska ruled that Robert Henderson would not be reinstated as a state trooper because of his membership in the Knights Party, a political group associated with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The court refused to reinstate Officer Henderson on the grounds that hi....... [more]

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, joined by attorneys general from six other states, filed a lawsuit Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Nebraska challenging new health care mandates that require the provision of contraception for all employees, including those of religious i....... [more]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Nebraska on Monday struck down a provision in Fremont, Nebraska law that denies housing permits to illegal immigrants, saying the ordinance violates federal law. In the ruling, Judge Laurie Smith Camp also upheld part of the Fremont law that requ....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremy Lipschultz of the University of Nebraska at Omaha says that in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., it seems likely that the Supreme Court will not force the Federal Communications Commission to alter its vague and subjective indecency policy and will not overturn the....... [more]