INTRODUCTION|Insofar as media defendants are concerned, there are two kinds of potentially libelous statements. Distinguished by the status of their subject, the two kinds of statements are, first, those relating to the ...

This article explores the new and important topic of the admissibility of web-based evidence -- from authentication to hearsay to judicial notice and beyond. By and large, the novel question regarding the admissibility of ...

This article asks this question: Is Eric Snowden a hero or a traitor? It works to the answer with a discussion of each of the following: a brief history of domestic surveillance by the United States Government and how that ...

INTRODUCTION|The Nebraska Unicameral has recently enacted a set of evidence rules which are closely patterned after the also recently enacted Federal Rules of Evidence. Each set of rules, federal and Nebraska, represents ...

INTRODUCTION|The Nebraska legislature has said that in civil cases presumptions shift the burden of persuasion. The Nebraska Supreme Court regularly says that certain presumptions disappear from the case once contrary ...