Nebraska Laws | National Law Review

Falling in the Great Plains and Midwestern Portion of the US, Nebraska is just over 77,000 sq. miles in land area, and over 1.9 million inhabitants, making it the 16th largest, and 37th by population in the US. Its largest city of Omaha lies on the Missouri River, and the capital city is Lincoln.

Characteristic of Midwestern states, approximately 89% of the cities in the state have fewer than 3000 residents living in them. Omaha and Lincoln, among other urbanized cities in the state, are more highly-populated however. The state has a large agricultural sector, and is a major producer of beef, corn, soybeans, and pork. Freight and transport, IT, telecommunications and insurance, are other leading sectors which contribute to the state’s economy.

Nebraska State Government Structure

The state government of Nebraska is broken into three branches: executive, judicial and legislative branch.

The executive branch are all elected officials, and they all serve for four years. The offices in the executive branch are the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, and State Auditor.
The legislative branch in Nebraska is a unicameral legislature that is non-partisan. The members, called Senators, are elected with no party affiliation. The legislature may override a governor veto with three-fifths of a vote, instead of a two-thirds required by other states. The state, when originally founded, had a bicameral legislature like most other states, but Nebraska voted to make the switch to a unicameral legislature in 1934.
Nebraska has a unified judicial system, with the Nebraska Supreme Court having authority over all the courts within the state. There are county courts, twelve district courts, and the Nebraska State Court of Appeals, which hears appeals from juvenile courts, workers compensation courts, and the district courts.

The state’s political power falls with the Republican party, as US senators and House Representatives, are all members of the political party. Nebraska has five electoral votes in US Presidential Elections; it is one of two states which allow for party-splits in electoral votes, depending upon election turnout and results in different counties throughout the state. Two votes are awarded to the popular vote, and remaining three to the highest vote getter in the state. The state has only voted in 7 Democratic nominees and the remaining 31 elected Presidents voted into officer were members of the Republican party.

The National Law Review covers a broad range of cases, legislation, agency news, and stories, which are centralized around the state of Nebraska. Employment non-compete clauses, telehealth services in the state, new state legislation, data security and bitcoin transactions, and other important news stories are covered by the National Law Review. Visitors can rely on the free-online business news website for the latest state news, how it affects locals, and its impact on the US and federal law.

Date	Title	Organization
8 Jul	COVID-19: US State Policy Report – July 7, 2020	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
3 Jul	COVID-19: US State Policy Report – July 2, 2020	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
5 Jun	COVID-19: US State Policy Report – June 3, 2020	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
15 May	Mayors Submit Letter To EPA Administrator On RFS Uphold And Proposed Waivers	Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
25 Feb	2019 Wage & Hour Developments: A Year in Review - State Updates	Jackson Lewis P.C.
23 Jan	BREAKING NEWS: Nebraska Bill Clarifies GILTI and Repatriation Are Deductible	McDermott Will & Emery
23 Jan	THE ENERGIZER – VOLUME 59	K&L Gates
15 Jan	New Trend Developing? Another Digital Advertising Tax Proposal	McDermott Will & Emery
5 Dec	First to File a Class Action is Not Enough to be Heard First	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
1 Nov	McDermottPlus Check-Up: November 1, 2019	McDermott Will & Emery
29 Jul	Four States Legislate to Streamline Small Cell Deployment Bringing Total to 28 – Part I: Nebraska	Keller and Heckman LLP
2 Apr	New Arkansas Law Defines Rice, Beef, Pork, and Meat	Keller and Heckman LLP
21 Mar	Nebraska Amends Licensing and Record Retention Requirements	Ballard Spahr LLP
25 Jan	New Nebraska Bill Defining Meat as Derived from Livestock or Poultry	Keller and Heckman LLP
23 Jan	California Appellate Court Holds Arbitration Agreement and Delegation Clause Unenforceable for Failure to File with State Regulators	Carlton Fields
15 Jan	Nebraska Bill Defines Meat as Derived from Livestock or Poultry	Keller and Heckman LLP
26 Dec	Applied Underwriters Defeats Motion for Summary Judgment in Suit Over Breach of Reinsurance Participation Agreement	Carlton Fields
10 Dec	Delaware Court Grapples With Enforcement of Choice of Law Provisions in Restrictive Covenant Agreements	Jackson Lewis P.C.
4 Dec	Will Hemp-Derived CBD Be Fully Legal with Passage of the 2018 Farm Bill? Not Quite…	Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
22 Oct	What Am I Doing Wrong?? Common FMLA Mistakes	Jackson Lewis P.C.
19 Jul	Supreme Court Internet Sales Tax Case Will Require Many Companies to File State Corporate Income Tax Returns – Even If They Are Not Subject to Sales Tax	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
19 Jun	Overtime Can Be An Essential Job Function	Jackson Lewis P.C.
4 Apr	A Proposed Statutory Framework for State Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses: The Uniform Law Commission’s “Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses Act”	Proskauer Rose LLP
21 Feb	There’s a Form for That? Breach Notices and State Reporting Portals	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
9 Feb	State-Level Legislation Anticipates Wide-Spread Business Use of Blockchain	Proskauer Rose LLP
13 Dec	Billable Bitcoins: Why it Pays for Lawyers to Accept Cryptocurrency	Proskauer Rose LLP
2 Oct	Telehealth Services in Nebraska Get a Boost	Foley & Lardner LLP
1 Sep	Flint Hills Resources Installs Co-Product Technologies	Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
31 Jul	Do You Have a Reasonable Expectation of Receiving Dividends if You Acquired Your Shares in a Family-Owned Corporation Through Gift or Inheritance?	Murtha Cullina
30 May	Nebraska Court Enforces Forum Selection Clause	Jackson Lewis P.C.
3 Apr	State Department Approval of Keystone XL Gives False Sense of Pipeline’s Regulatory Finality	Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
3 Jan	Illinois, Nebraska, and Nevada Join Others to Expand Personal Information Definition to Include Usernames or Email Addresses	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
7 Sep	North Carolina and Nebraska Join 32 Other States In Agreeing To Partner With U.S. DOL to Investigate Worker Misclassification	Proskauer Rose LLP
2 Sep	Summer Round-Up: Four States Bolster Data Breach Notification Laws and More Changes on the Way	Mintz
4 May	Nebraska Amends Data Breach Notification Law	Jackson Lewis P.C.
18 Jan	New Year Rings in with More Minimum Wage Increases	Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
21 Jul	Montana Joins Majority of Courts Holding That Insurers Must Establish Prejudice to Disclaim Coverage Based on an Insured’s Late Notice	Proskauer Rose LLP
8 Jun	Case Law Update: A Refresher on Unenforceable Agreements to Agree	von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
12 May	Nebraska to Require Reasonable Accommodations for Pregnant Workers	Jackson Lewis P.C.
29 Jan	Beware of Limits to Criminal History Inquiries in Employment Applications	Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
13 Jan	State Minimum Wage Increases Effective 2015	Jackson Lewis P.C.
5 Jan	Oklahoma and Nebraska Challenge Colorado’s Amendment 64: Legalized Marijuana	The National Law Review / The National Law Forum LLC
2 Jan	Minimum Wage Surges in 2015 and Beyond	Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
29 Dec	Four States and Two Major Cities Approve Minimum Wage Increases	Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
19 Dec	Supreme Court Asked To Decide Whether Colorado’s Marijuana Legalization Violates Constitution	Jackson Lewis P.C.
4 Dec	President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration under Attack in Federal Court	Jackson Lewis P.C.
4 Dec	Fourteen States and Four Governors Sue the President on His Immigration Executive Orders – The Battle Begins	Proskauer Rose LLP
4 Dec	17 States Pull the Trigger and File an Action in Federal Court to Enjoin the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action Program	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
18 Nov	FERC Approves Integration of Western Area Power Administration, Basin Electric Power Cooperative and Heartland Consumers Power District into SPP	Schiff Hardin LLP
7 Nov	Four States and Two Cities Hike Their Minimum Wage Rates	Proskauer Rose LLP