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Filed July 31st 2007
Nebraska Court of Appeals
15 Neb. App. 847

SUMMARY: Jurisdiction over a truant juvenile was continued even though she had attended all her classes at the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center. The court ruled that “the simple fact that [she] ha[d] not been truant… [was] not enough to terminate the court’s jurisdiction, because [...]

Filed on July 24th 2007
Nebraska Court of Appeals
No. A-06-1354
SUMMARY: The Court of Appeal determined that the State failed to prove its claim that “the children [were] likely to be injured without intervention by the juvenile court” after their parents were involved in an altercation, because the state provided no evidence of prior domestic violence, no [...]

Filed on July 7 2007
Nebraska Court of AppealsNo. A-06-1371
SUMMARY: The Court of Appeals upheld the termination of a mother’s parental rights where continued alcohol abuse prevented her from providing “necessary parental care and protection” and caused her conduct to be “seriously detrimental to the health, morals, or well-being of” her children. Further, termination was [...]

Filed July 3rd 2007
Nebraska Court of Appeals
No. A-06-1197

SUMMARY: A DHHS recommendation that a father be allowed to return to the family home did not have the best interests of the children as its “paramount concern” when the father’s behavior had failed to make “significant and measured improvement” and the evidence indicated a continuing psychological [...]

Filed on June 5th 2007
Nebraska Court of Appeals 15 Neb. App. 641
SUMMARY: A juvenile court is not required to terminate jurisdiction over a minor child even though the basis for acquiring jurisdiction no longer exists. 
Majority Opinion On April 25, 2005, Kevin was adjudicated under § 43-247(3)(b) for being habitually truant from school. The court ordered [...]

Filed on April 25 2007
Nebraska Supreme Court 273 Neb. 612
SUMMARY: While “expert opinion testimony” regarding the credibility of witness statements should be excluded, in this case, the officer’s statement, “read in context,” was not to vouch for the credibility of a witness, but simply explained her departure from the standard interview form, and thus was [...]