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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Above The Law

MARCH 19, 2025

The JAA would extend the same basic workplace protections that apply to most other workers, to judiciary employees who support the daily functioning of our courts; and it would ensure that judges who interpret federal anti-discrimination laws, are themselves subject to them. Our first bold initiative?

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JUNE 24, 2022

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

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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

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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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

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

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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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

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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JURIST

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The group comes from a broad range of states across the country, including California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Vermont. They will examine whether the company violated state consumer protection laws by putting the public at risk.

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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

JUNE 6, 2023

Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ+ rights group, declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the US on Tuesday in a new report that highlights the steep increase in laws and harassment targeting the LGBTQ+ community. HRC highlighted testimony from parents of transgender children leaving states with restrictive laws.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 5, 2022

Over the past few years, many law firms have started cryptocurrency practice groups. But are these law firms accepting crypto as payment? Today many law firms accept cryptocurrency as payments. Moreover, it is still unclear whether cryptocurrency is money or property under the law. Getting Paid with Cryptocurrency.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2022

88 Tactical previously made the news in 2017 by hosting the Global Faith Institute, which the SPLC calls a hate group, for a talk called “Understanding the Threat, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Secret Strategies for the USA,” widely condemned as anti-Muslim and led by former FBI Agent John Guandolo.

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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

MARCH 8, 2022

To vote for people to be able to concealed carry without a license, without any training, without any documentation, it makes it exponentially harder for law enforcement to prevent gun crimes.”.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2023

“That’s an access problem when you are asking someone to drive 100 miles or more to do a simple will or a simple divorce,” said Sam Clinch, associate executive director of the Nebraska State Bar Association, a state with few lawyers outside its largest cities, Lincoln and Omaha.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 31, 2023

In addition, at least 228 local laws, ordinances and policies have been enacted in 35 states to restrict renewable energy projects, according to a report, Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States , issued on May 31 by Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The pursuit of profit is “inextricably intertwined” with America’s system of carceral labor, and criminal punishment, according to a forthcoming paper in the Wisconsin Law Review. Appleman, the Van Winkle Melton Professor of Law and the University Research Integrity Officer for the Willamette University College of Law.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Trailer manufacturer Great Dane LLC agreed to pay $436,000 to resolve allegations that one of its Nebraska plants discriminated against non-U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday, releasing new guidance about lawful permanent residents' employment rights. citizens during the hiring process, the U.S.

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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2022

A new legal research service has quietly launched, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms, but what is not obvious from the service’s website is that the company behind it was formed as a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis. Even though the Decisis website does not mention LexisNexis, the OSBA site does.

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JURIST

MARCH 25, 2022

A federal jury Thursday convicted US Representative Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska on one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators. Under US law, foreign nationals cannot make contributions to a federal campaign.

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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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CARET Legal

OCTOBER 16, 2024

50-Minute Hour: A 50-minute credit hour means that a 60-minute session will usually provide 1.2 credit hours.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

link] The Minnesota courts have a detailed page on their Self-Help Centers that provide not only location information but also tools and resources, law, rules & legal research, and how to find legal advice clinics. Guides on resources and legal information and a pointer to Montana Law Help legal services ( [link] ) are also available.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. Pfeifer and I met for the interview at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Denver. Pfeifer , who is chief product officer for LexisNexis in Canada, the U.K.

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Law 360

MAY 9, 2023

The National Labor Relations Board's recent ruling against a Nebraska meat processor, ordering an expanded range of remedies for the employer's repeated labor law violations, signals the NLRB's willingness to impose harsh remedies more frequently, in the full spectrum of unfair labor practice litigation, say Eric Stuart and Zachary Zagger at Ogletree. (..)

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

My role as a baron in a living history group, and my work as volunteer corporate counsel for a book series fan association, has provided me several opportunities to practice in unexpected areas of law — opening doors to experiences that have nurtured invaluable personal and professional skills, says Matthew Parker at the Nebraska Department of Health (..)

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