Publications

The Nebraska Legislature convened a Special Session on July 25, 2024.  Governor Jim Pillen called the Special Session “to fix the state’s property tax crisis.” Under legislative rules, senators had three legislative days to introduce legislation.  Senators introduced 81 bills and 24 constitutional amendments.  All of those received a public […]

As reported in prior editions of the Technology & Intellectual Property Update, on April 17, 2024, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed into law the Nebraska Data Privacy Act Nebraska Data Privacy Act (the “Act”), which goes into effect on January 1, 2025.  In our first article in this series, we […]

As reported in prior editions of the Technology & Intellectual Property Update, on April 17, 2024, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed into law the Nebraska Data Privacy Act Nebraska Data Privacy Act (the “Act”), which goes into effect on January 1, 2025.  In our first article in this series, we […]

On July 10, 2024 federal bank regulators, Office of the Comptroller Currency (“OCC”) and the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), fined Citibank and its holding company, Citigroup (collectively “Citi”), a combined $135.6 million due to “insufficient progress” in addressing “longstanding deficiencies” related to data management, originally identified in 2020. This comes […]

On June 2024, the US Supreme Court overturned a 1984 ruling referred to as the Chevron Doctrine, which instructed lower courts to defer to federal agencies when federal statutes were either silent or ambiguous on the issue in controversy.  Deference was encouraged even if the lower court judge thought that […]