Publications

The Douglas County Assessor values properties located in Douglas County as of January 1 of each year with final valuations set on or about May 1 of each year. If a property owner disagrees with the property value that the Assessor assigns, the owner may file a Property Valuation Protest […]

Two submissions under the Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP) reporting possible violations of the Stark Law were settled by CMS on December 23, 2013. As reported by CMS on its website, the first submission involved an acute care hospital in Florida, which disclosed that its arrangement with 51 physicians failed to […]

On May 7, 2014, the OFCCP published Directive 2014-01, which establishes a five-year moratorium on its enforcement of obligations related to affirmative action programs and recordkeeping under Executive Order (E.O.) 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 503), and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of […]

In May of 2014, in the case of ConAgra v. Zimmerman, the Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling, holding that ConAgra was entitled to a one-year permanent injunction against Zimmerman, the estranged husband of an employee, to prevent future harm to its property and its employees. The decision […]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently released its “Garnishment of Accounts Containing Federal Benefit Payments” booklet, which is new to the Comptroller’s Handbook and establishes procedures that financial institutions must follow when they receive a garnishment order against an account holder who receives certain types of federal […]