Publications

Less than one week after the Nebraska Supreme Court issued an important decision for public entities in Nebraska Journalism Trust v. Nebraska Department of Environment, the Legislature passed a bill nullifying a key piece of the Court’s decision and making other changes to the Nebraska Public Records Statutes and Open […]

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (“LIHTC”) industry in Nebraska may be changing.  First, on March 15, 2024, the Nebraska Supreme Court decided A&P II, LLC v. Lancaster County Board of Equalization, addressing LIHTC property valuation methodologies.  Second, Congress adjusted the Private Activity Bond (“PAB”) financing threshold for four percent […]

In a recent court case filed in Superior Court in California[1], a law firm alleges that a managed service provider (“MSP”) is partly to blame for the loss of their data as a result of a cyber-breach. The law firm’s complaint states that the MSP was hired in part to […]

Consistent with the national trend focusing on data privacy, this Nebraska Unicameral session has considered several data privacy related bills. One in particular, LB 308 (the Genetic Information Privacy Act or “GIPA”), made its way to the Governor who signed the bill into law on February 13, 2024. Nebraska’s GIPA […]

As it did with the regulation of data privacy by adopting the GDPR, the European Union is once again at the forefront of regulation.  This time the EU Parliament has taken up regulation of AI.  The Parliament started down the path to define regulations related to the use of AI […]