Overlawyered » Nebraska http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Oglala Sioux tribe sues beer companies over alcoholism http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/oglala-sioux-tribe-sues-beer-companies-over-alcoholism/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/oglala-sioux-tribe-sues-beer-companies-over-alcoholism/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:07:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27507 “An American Indian tribe sued some of the world’s largest beer makers today, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.” The Oglala Sioux tribe is asking for $500 million. [AP; Lincoln Journal-Star; Don Surber] More: Jacob Sullum, Ted Frank.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/oglala-sioux-tribe-sues-beer-companies-over-alcoholism/feed/ 18 Dogs in the dorms http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dogs-in-the-dorms/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dogs-in-the-dorms/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:31:31 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25991 The Justice Department has sued the University of Nebraska-Kearney and its regents and employees for allegedly “denying reasonable accommodation requests by students with psychological or emotional disabilities seeking to live with emotional assistance animals in university housing.” [Disability Law]

More/update: Inside Higher Ed.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/dogs-in-the-dorms/feed/ 6 “Nebraska Supreme Court: No DUI in a Private Driveway” http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/nebraska-supreme-court-no-dui-in-a-private-driveway/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/nebraska-supreme-court-no-dui-in-a-private-driveway/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:13:57 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25200 “Jeffrey McCave was sentenced in a county court to thirty days in jail, two years of probation and a $1000 fine for listening to music in an undriven car parked on his father’s driveway while drunk. The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday used the case to clarify that the charge of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) does not apply in a personal driveway.” [The Newspaper]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/nebraska-supreme-court-no-dui-in-a-private-driveway/feed/ 11 Murdered girlfriend, blames Zoloft http://overlawyered.com/2009/06/murdered-girlfriend-blames-zoloft/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/06/murdered-girlfriend-blames-zoloft/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:02:53 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=12040 Nebraska inmate Randall Robbins II is serving time for strangling his girlfriend and blames the antidepressant pill. He wants millions from Pfizer and a Lincoln doctor. [AP/Forbes]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/fit-for-a-foot-chase/feed/ 1 “Nebraska Appeals Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against God” http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/nebraska-appeals-court-dismisses-lawsuit-against-god/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/nebraska-appeals-court-dismisses-lawsuit-against-god/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:08:19 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=9498 Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha has lost another round in his legal jousting with the Almighty. [CBS4Denver, Lowering the Bar, earlier here and here]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/nebraska-appeals-court-dismisses-lawsuit-against-god/feed/ 0 CPSIA: Library books under an orange tarp http://overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-library-books-under-an-orange-tarp/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-library-books-under-an-orange-tarp/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:04:41 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=9258 It’s happening at the Morton James Public Library in Nebraska City, Neb.:

A federal child product safety law has staff at the Morton James Public Library quarantining books behind bright orange plastic and wondering how many must be pulled forever from the shelves. …

Over 1,000 books with 1985 or older on the copyright page have already been quarantined behind an orange curtain.

Library Director Barbara Hegr said librarians will try to determine if the edition is a printing after the copyright date, so the book may be preserved.

Click through to the news story at the Nebraska City News-Press for more details, as well as a photo you may not soon forget. You can also Digg the story here.

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  • Days of “Clean up your room or I’ll drop you off in Nebraska” threat may be numbered [NY Times; earlier] #
  • Bigger jury verdicts during the holidays? A bit of legal folklore is disproved (at least if you posit that the cases docketed at that time of year are a random selection) [Point of Law] #
  • NY budgeters, dependent on Wall Street tax revenue, built a public sector house of cards [McMahon/City Journal] #
  • Funniest Photoshop: “Toto, I have a feeling we are not in Alaska anymore” [Zincavage] #
  • Why they call it Euro-sclerosis [Coyote] #
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/microblog-2008-10-30/feed/ 0     October 21 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/october-21-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/october-21-roundup-2/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:55:29 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7713
  • Hey, that Jon Bon Jovi baseball anthem sounds familiar, make the check out for $400 billion please [Boston Herald]
  • Cyrus Sanai, known for dogged campaign against Judge Kozinski, is back with a new 80-page complaint which also names “10 other district court and 9th Circuit judges who have been assigned to his family’s case at one time or another.” [NLJ]
  • More on English “no barbed wire on allotments” rules: “I am replacing the glass in the windows of my house with tissue paper, so that burglars — poor lambs — will not cut themselves while breaking and entering.” [Dalrymple, City Journal]
  • Ethical alarms should go off when criminal defense lawyers’ marketing hints at insider pull or former-prosecutor clout [Greenfield]
  • Annals of public employee tenure: firing a cop in Chicago sure isn’t easy [TalkLeft, FOI files on Gerald Callahan and William Cozzi cases at Chicago Justice Project]
  • Gigantic government database of cellphone users planned for U.K. [Massie]
  • Babies only, please: Nebraska backs off from its dump-a-teen “safe haven” parental abandonment law [Althouse, earlier]
  • Some Israelis may be overly cheery in welcoming presumed benefits of consumer class actions [Karlsgodt citing Jerusalem Post editorial]
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