Publications

Most health care entities have a compliance policy. However, in many cases, they don’t have compliance plans and are unaware of their usefulness. Compliance plans are detailed plans setting out standards for compliance in specific areas or with respect to particular issues. Compliance plans may be standing and ongoing or […]

The first session of the 104th Nebraska Legislature continues to proceed with hearings underway or scheduled for all of this session’s bills that we are tracking. Here is an update on the bills we are tracking related to real property, renewable energy, and municipal law. You can find copies of […]

In December 2014, the Nebraska Court of Appeals rendered its decision in the case Village of Filley v. Setzer, 22 Neb. App. 575 (Neb. Ct. App. 2014). In 2002, the Village of Filley (the “Village”) loaned money to a local business and the owners thereof (collectively, the “Business”) pursuant to […]

In a December 2014 article, we reported that based on the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., Supreme Court observers thought the final decision would favor borrowers over mortgage lenders. That prediction has proven prescient, but the outcome for mortgage lenders was […]

On January 15, 2015, four major tech companies — Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel — asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to approve a settlement of a class action lawsuit accusing them of violating federal and state antitrust laws. What was the alleged violation? In essence, that they […]