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Erisa Subrogation After Montanile, Colleen E. Medill, Alyssa M. Stokes

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. ERISA Subrogation Claims ... A. The Fiduciary Duties of Plan Administrators ... B. Reimbursement Claims Against Plan Participants … 1. Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co. v. Knudson ... 2. Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. ... 3. US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen ... 4. Montanile v. Board of Trustees ... C. The Plan Administrator’s Reaction to McCutchen and Montanile

III. Post-McCutchen and Montanile Problems ... A. Disincentives to Litigate Personal Injury Claims or Cooperate with Plan Administrators ... 1. Screen and Decline Borderline Cases ... 2. Attempt to Pre-Negotiate a Set Reimbursement Amount ... …

Indian Children And The Federal-Tribal Trust Relationship, Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Wenona T. Singel

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Indian Children and the Founding Generation ... A. The Treaty and International Law Basis of the Federal-Tribal Trust Relationship ... B. Federal Military and Diplomatic Actions ... 1. Colonial Era ... 2. Revolutionary War ... 3. Post-Revolutionary War Era ... 4. The Northwest Indian War ... 5. The Treaty of Greenville and the Founding Generation ... C. Federal Treaty and Statutory Law ... 1. Education and Schools ... 2. Land Rights ... 3. Other Provisions for Indian Orphans

III. Indian Children in the Coercive Period ... A. Interference in Internal Tribal Matters ... B. The Perversion of …

One Tax To Rule Them All: Rethinking Fiscal Federalism’S Tax-Assignment Problem, Peter A. Prescott

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. One Tax System to Rule Them All ... A. The Current System ... B. The Proposed System ... 1. Tax Assignment ... 2. Intergovernmental Transfers ... 3. Expenditure Responsibility ... C. Constitutional Viability

III. Analysis of the One Tax System Proposal ... A. Tax Policy Considerations ... 1. Economic Efficiency ... 2. Tax Administrative Complexity ... 3. Equity ... B. Fiscal Federalism Considerations ... 1. Tax-Specific Considerations ... 2. Tax-Coordination Considerations ... 3. Behavioral Economics and the Benefits of Interstate Governmental Competition

IV. Other Alternatives ... A. Uniform Taxpayer Nexus and Apportionment ... B. Full Uniformity Except …

Complicit Bias: Sex-Offender Registration As A Penalty For Obstructing Sex-Trafficking Prosecutions, Blanche Cook

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Case Synopsis

III. The Federalization of Human Sex Trafficking

IV. The Canons of Statutory Interpretation ... A. Plain Language of §§ 1591 and 16911 ... B. The Legislative History ... 1. Section 1591’s Legislative History ... 2. The Use of the T-Visa in Discouraging Obstruction ... 3. The Legislative History of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ... a. The History and Purpose of National Sex Offender Registries ... b. Sex Trafficking as an Offense under SORNA ... c. The Rule of Lenity

V. Doctrinal and Theoretical Framework ... A. Theories of Conspiracy: The Inappropriateness of …

Masthead & Table Of Contents, Vol. 96, No. 2

Nebraska Law Review

No abstract provided.

State, Local, And Regional Issues In Cybersecurity: Symposium Introduction, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz

Nebraska Law Review

Cybersecurity is one of the more difficult and urgent issues of the day. It is an issue that touches almost every aspect of modern life. Recent years have seen major cybersecurity incidents affect national security, our political process, major government institutions, companies of every size throughout our economy, critical infrastructure, banking, consumer electronics, and, of course, consumers themselves. Examples of each of these feature so prominently in the news that they barely need citation: OPM, Sony, Target, concerns about the 2016 election, disclosure of NSA hacking tools, attacks on the banking sector’s SWIFT network, ransomware attacks against hospitals, DDoS attacks …

The Modern Penny Dreadful: Public Prosecution And The Need For Litigation Privacy In A Digital Age, Jennifer A. Brobst

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Cybercrime and the Social Impact of Loss of Privacy

III. Balancing Constitutional Rights of Transparency with the Need for Anonymity in the Courtroom … A. Anonymous Juries ... B. Jane Doe Motions and Disclosure of Litigant and Witness Identities

IV. Limitations on the Right of Public Access to Court Proceedings ... A. Bans on Recording Devices in Court ... B. Closing the Courtroom

V. Public Records and Privacy-Related Exemptions

VI. Not So Private Rights of Action ... A. Statutory Remedies ... B. Defamation ... C. Invasion of Privacy ... D. Employee Harassment

VII. Conclusion

What’S Next For E-Government? Innovations In E-Government Through A Cybersecurity Lens, Emefa Agawu

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. What Is E-Government?

III. Trends in E-Government Innovation ... A. Increasing Access to Content ... B. Digitize Service Loop ... C. Expand or Create New Government Functions

IV. State and Local Governments in a Changing Threat Landscape ... A. CIA Framework ... B. Applying the CIA Framework ... 1. Trend 1. Increasing Access to Information ... 2. Trend 2. Digitizing Government Service Loop … 3. Trend 3. Expanding or Creating Government Functions

V. Innovations in E-Government: Case Studies ... A. New Jersey: Open Data Initiative ... B. Boston: Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics

VI. Conclusion

The Sec’S Data Dilemma: Addressing A Modern Problem By Encouraging Innovation, Responsibility, And Fairness, Gregg Moran

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Modern Threats to Sensitive Data

III. The FTC’s Approach to Data Security

IV. The SEC’s Approach to Data Security ... A. The Safeguards Rule ... 1. Development of the Safeguards Rule ... 2. Safeguards Rule Enforcement Actions ... a. NEXT Financial Group ... b. LPL Financial Corp ... c. J. P. Turner & Co. and Stephen Bauman ... d. Commonwealth Equity Services ... e. GunnAllen Financial ... f. R. T. Jones Capital Equities Management ... g. Craig Scott Capital ... h. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney ... B. Other Statutes and Regulations ... 1. Statutes and Regulations the …

Tie Goes To The Primary Caregiver: The Misapplication Of The Primary-Caregiver Preference In Rommers V. Rommers, 22 Neb. App. 606, 858 N.W.2d 607 (2014), David M. Pontier

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Background ... A. Nebraska Child Custody Statutory Provisions ... B. The Primary-Caregiver Preference ... C. The Facts of Rommers ... D. District and Appellate Court Holdings in Rommers

III. Rommers Analysis ... A. Disproportionate Best-Interests Factors ... B. The Proper Timing of Primary-Caregiver Preference Analysis

IV. Conclusion

Will Labor Law Prompt Conservative Justices To Adopt A Radical Theory Of State Action?, Joseph E. Slater

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Private-Sector Union Security Clauses Do Not Involve “State Action” ... A. What Private-Sector Union Security Clauses Are and Are Not ... B. Basic State Action Doctrine ... C. Hanson’s Argument: Federal Preemption of State Contract Law Is State Action? ... D. “Forced Association” Creating State Action? ... E. Keller, the First Amendment, and the State Bar Comparison ... F. Unions as a Special Case and Race

III. The Implications of Finding That Private-Sector Union Security Agreements Constitute State Action ... A. Incoherently Broad in Theory ... B. Unbounded and Unworkable in Practice

IV. Conclusion: A …

Conceptualizing Cryptolaw, Carla L. Reyes

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. A Distributed Ledger Technology Primer ... A. Distributed Ledger Technology: Bitcoin’s Blockchain, Ethereum, and Beyond ... B. A Brief Introduction to Smart Contracts

III. Defining Cryptolaw ... A. Distributed Ledger Technology Will Lead to Cryptolaw ... B. Three Possible Methods of Adopting Crypto-Legal Structures ... 1. Government Adoption of Industry-Created Crypto-Legal Structures ... 2. Crypto-Legal Structures Directly Coded by Government ... 3. International Development of Crypto-Legal Structures ... C. More than Just Another “Law of the Horse”

IV. Conceptualizing Cryptolaw as Disruptive Legal Discourse ... A. Disruption of Substantive Law ... 1. Simplification of Substantive Law ... …

Masthead & Table Of Contents, Vol. 96, No. 1

Nebraska Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Constitutional Right To An Abortion Does Not Encompass The Right To Be Uninformed: The Fourth Circuit’S Puzzling Approach To Evaluating Mandatory Ultrasound Provisions In Stuart V. Camnitz, 774 F.3d 238 (4th Cir. 2014), Lindsey Schmidt

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Background ... A. The History and Constitutionality of Informed Consent Statutes ... B. The First Amendment and Its Limitations—Legitimate Government Regulation of Speech ... C. Professionals and First Amendment Protections––Or Lack Thereof ... D. Speech and Display Cases—the Circuits’ Attempt to Construe Roe, Casey, and the Professional Speech Doctrine Alluded to in Lowe

III. Stuart v. Camnitz ... A. Facts ... B. The Fourth Circuit Weighs In

IV. Analysis ... A. The North Carolina Statute Is a Permissible Exercise of State Police Powers Even Though It Implicates the First Amendment ... B. The Fourth Circuit …

Beyond The Network: A Holistic Perspective On State Cybersecurity Governance, Michael Garcia, David Forscey, Timothy Blute

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Governance: The New Frontier of Information Assurance

III. State Cybersecurity Governance Extends Beyond the Network

IV. Centralizing Security Governance to Defend State Networks

V. Governance Beyond Network Defense ... A. Disruption Response ... B. Law Enforcement ... C. Cybersecurity Centers

VI. Conclusion

Appendix: States and Indicators

Promise And Peril: Doctrinally Permissible Options For Calibrating Procedure Through Contract, H. Allen Blair

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Gains from Customized Procedure ... A. A Brief Primer on the Economic Theory of Procedure in Dispute Resolution ... B. The Current Default Rules of Procedure ... C. The Potential Benefits of Procedural Customization through Contract ... 1. Curbing Post-Dispute Opportunism ... 2. Reinforcing Substantive Obligations ... 3. Mitigating Risk ... 4. Reducing the Direct Costs of Litigation

III. The Limited Empirical Evidence

IV. The Doctrinally Permissible Options for Calibrating Procedure Through Contract ... A. Procedure as Public Law: Historic Skepticism of Private Procedural Ordering ... B. Mere Contract Law No More: Autonomy and Private Procedural …

From Russia With Love: Understanding The Russian Cyber Threat To U.S. Critical Infrastructure And What To Do About It, Scott J. Shackelford, Michael Sulmeyer, Amanda N. Craig Deckard, Ben Buchanan, Brian Micic

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. A Short History of Russian Hacking of U.S. Government Networks and Critical Infrastructure

III. Unpacking the Ukraine Grid Hacks and Their Aftermath

IV. Analyzing Policy Options to Help Promote the Resilience of U.S. Government Systems and Critical Infrastructure ... A. Contextualizing and Introducing Draft Version 1.1 of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework ... B. Operationalizing International Cybersecurity Norms on Critical Infrastructure ... C. Deterrence and a Path Forward ... 1. Publicize Benefits as Applied … 2. Publicize Exercise Results ... 3. Publicize Updates

V. Conclusion

Indexes To Volume 95

Nebraska Law Review

No abstract provided.

Balancing Interests And Risk Of Error: What Quarantine Process Is Due After Ebolamania, Jennifer Jolly-Ryan

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Good Samaritan Nurse’s Return Home from Sierra Leone

III. Historical Background of Quarantines

IV. State and Federal Quarantine Powers ... A. The States’ Broad Police Powers and Quarantines … B. The Federal Government’s Commerce Power and Quarantines

V. Procedural Due Process Limits on Quarantine Powers … A. Weighing Individual Liberty Interests Quarantines Infringe ... B. Weighing the Risk of Error in Quarantine Procedures ... C. Weighing Government Interests, Adding Eradication of Discrimination

VI. Conclusion

Using The Federal Public Trust Doctrine To Fill Gaps In The Legal Systems Protecting Migrating Wildlife From The Effects Of Climate Change, Hope M. Babcock

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Impact of Global Climate Change on Wildlife ... A. General Impact of Climate Change ... B. The Impact of Global Climate Change on Wildlife … 1. Wildlife Migration ... 2. Assisted Migration and Protecting Migratory Corridors

III. Rigid Federal Laws and Inadequate Private Conservation Mechanisms ... A. Federal Lands and Federal Laws ... B. Inadequate Private Conservation Mechanisms

IV. The Public Trust Doctrine and a Federal Trust in Wildlife ... A. The Public Trust Doctrine ... B. Strong Federal Interest in Wildlife

V. Three Theories Supporting the Existence of a Federal Public Trust Doctrine and Why …

Masthead & Table Of Contents, Vol. 95, No. 4

Nebraska Law Review

No abstract provided.

Masthead & Table Of Contents, Vol. 95, No. 3

Nebraska Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Catch-22 Of Females Reporting Sexual Assault In The Military: A Cause For Holistic International Intervention, Kelsey E. B. Knoer

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Women in the Military ... A. General Background ... B. The Sexual Assault Problem: A Cross-Cultural Glance

III. The Underlying Issues: Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Across Cultures ... A. Ambivalent Sexism and Sexual Agency ... B. Gender Roles and Non-Conformance

IV. Applicable Law ... A. No Relief on the Home Front ... 1. The Uniform Code of Military Justice ... 2. Civilian Law ... 3. Testing the Boundaries of International Law

V. Suggestions for Reform: A Holistic Approach ... A. Setting an Example ... B. Going Deeper than the Law

VI. Conclusion

Constitutionalizing Class Certification, Margaret S. Thomas

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Constitutional Shift in Class Certification ... A. BP’s Gulf Oil Spill Muddies Article III’s Limits on Class Standing in Federal Court ... B. Defendant Due Process Rights in Class Actions in State Courts ... 1. Montana’s Example: Class-Wide Punitive Damages ... 2. Pennsylvania’s Example: Wal-Mart Redux ... C. Weaving Together the Three Categories of Constitutional Challenges to Certification

III. The Historical Constitutional Limits on Aggregation ... A. The Constitutional Canon for Class Actions: Flexibility and Pragmatism ... B. Due Process in Civil Litigation: Mathews v. Eldridge and Its Progeny ... C. The New Frontier: Movement Toward …

The “Inventive Concept” After Mayo: Where Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. V. Sequenom, Inc., 788 F.3d 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2015), Went Wrong, Jared Koch

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Background ... A. Development of § 101 ... 1. Laws of Nature, Natural Phenomena, and Abstract Ideas ... 2. The “Inventive Concept” ... B. Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. ... 1. Facts ... 2. The Mayo Test ... C. Alice Corp v. CLS Bank International ... D. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. ... 1. Facts ... 2. The Federal Circuit’s Decision

III. Analysis ... A. The Inventive Concept after Mayo ... B. Discovery as an Inventive Concept ... 1. Conformity with the Inventive Concept Framework ... 2. Addressing the Federal Circuit’s Concerns ... 3. …

Deference And Fiction: Reforming Chevron’S Legal Fictions After King V. Burwell, Kurt Eggert

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Tumultuous Passage of the Affordable Care Act

III. King v. Burwell and the Challenge to the ACA

IV. Chevron and “Step Zero” ... A. The Chevron Doctrine ... B. Chevron Step Zero

V. The Application of Chevron in King v. Burwell ... A. Chevron and the Lead-Up to King v. Burwell ... B. King v. Burwell and Chevron Step Zero ... C. King v. Burwell and Skidmore Deference

VI. How Chevron’s Fictions Lead to Chevron’s Confusion ... A. The Fictional Basis of Chevron ... B. Chevron’s Stare Decisis Muddle and the Need for …

Newbs Lose, Experts Win: Video Games In The Supreme Court, Angela J. Campbell

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Advantage of a Supreme Court Expert ... A. California’s Counsel ... B. Entertainment Merchant Association’s (EMA) Counsel

III. Background on the Video Game Cases ... A. Cases Prior to Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass’n ... B. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass’n ... 1. Before the District Court ... 2. Before the Ninth Circuit ... 3. Supreme Court

IV. Comparison of Expert and Non-Expert Representation in Brown ... A. Merits Briefs ... 1. Statement of Facts ... a. California’s Statement of Facts ... b. EMA’s Statement of Facts ... c. A More Effective Statement of Facts ... …

Cybersecurity Stovepiping, David Thaw

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Concept of Stovepiping

III. Stovepiping in Cybersecurity ... A. Policy Making, Complexity, and Change ... B. Complex Passwords: A Case Study ... 1. Fundamentals of Password Complexity ... 2. “Guessability”—the False Assumption ... a. Password Guessing via Authentication (Login) Interfaces ... b. Password Guessing via Unprotected/Unsanitized Service ... c. Offline Password Attacks ... 3. “Defense in Depth”—Measuring Marginal Benefit

IV. Implications of the Stovepiping Disjuncture ... A. Addressing the Same Question … B. Overcoming Policy Entrenchment ... C. Risk-Analytic Framework for Cybersecurity

V. Conclusion

Networking Emergency Response: Empowering Fema In The Age Of Convergence And Cyber Critical Infrastructure, Christopher M. Bailey

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Placing Cybersecurity in the Critical-Infrastructure Conversation ... A. What Makes Cybersecurity Critical to Critical Infrastructure? ... 1. Superstorm Sandy ... 2. Failure of the Taum Sauk Water Storage Dam … B. PPD-21 and Recognition of Cyber in Critical Infrastructure ... C. PPD-41: Cybersecurity Has Its Day

III. Empowering FEMA in the Age of Cybersecurity ... A. The Stafford Act in Practice ... B. The Stafford Act’s Current Approach to Cybersecurity ... C. Modernizing FEMA and the Stafford Act for a Networked World ... 1. Putting Cyber Incidents in Context by Defining the Incident ... 2. Developing Cyber-Emergency-Preparedness …

Driving Courts Crazy: A Look At How Labor And Employment Laws Do Not Coincide With Ride Platforms In The Sharing Economy, Alyssa M. Stokes

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Background ... A. The “Sharing” Economy ... B. Who Is an Employee? ... 1. Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors ... 2. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ... 3. California Wage and Hour Laws

III. Litigation for Ride Platforms in the Sharing Economy … A. Trouble for Uber Begins in Berwick v. Uber Technologies, Inc. ... 1. Facts ... 2. California Labor Commission Finds Uber Driver Is Employee ... B. California District Court Weighs in: O’Connor v. Uber Technologies, Inc. ... 1. Facts ... 2. The California District Court Weighs in on Uber’s Alleged Misclassification ... …