People who retired from predecessor companies to Windstream have been dealt a blow in their bid to prevent the company from altering their benefits starting in January. | Full Story

Roberta Anderson, Legal Secretary at DOMINALAW Group pc llo, retires at the end of 2008. Roberta has been with DLGpc since 1994. We thank Roberta for years of service and wish her well as she celebrates her retirement. Congratulations!

The former Skyline Woods golf course must be maintained to look like a golf course but isn't required to be operated as one, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday. In a unanimous opinion, the court ruled that developer David Broekemeier, who bought the course in 2005 to develop into condominiums, was bound by covenants that restrict use of the property as a golf course. | Full Story

Windstream Corp. wants a federal judge to affirm its authority to reduce retiree benefits even when the people affected retired from other phone companies that Windstream acquired over the years. | Full Story

Since shortly after statehood, a Nebraska statute has permitted “persons in possession of land for which a patent has not yet been issued” to petition a local “freeholder board” to transfer land between school districts for tax purposes. Frequently – sometimes biennially – this thorny subject has commanded legislative attention. | Full Story

Walton Construction has been hired to finish the West Edge project, although it will be several weeks before work resumes on the star-crossed development near the Country Club Plaza. | Full Story

The November-December 2008 combined issue of The Nebraska Lawyer featured David Domina’s analysis of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The Act is commonly known as the Bank Bailout Bill. Bankers call it the “Troubled Asset Recovery Plan” or TARP. | Full Story  

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The festering dispute over The West Edge development has blown up, with J.E. Dunn Construction Co. quitting advertising magnate Bob Bernstein’s trophy project going up by the Country Club Plaza. | Full Story

“Compliance” practice means tax return preparation to an accountant.  It means the same thing to many lawyers.  Both professions know “compliance” practice may also encompass analysis, advice and assistance on observing or otherwise discharging a broad range of federal and state laws, regulations and guidelines ranging from annual domestic occupation tax reports and meeting minutes to intermittent environmental agency filings. | Full Story

The troubled West Edge has been hit by more turmoil with the contractor and developer trading accusations about missed payments, pushing the high-profile project’s timetable further behind. | Full Story

A Bellevue man is suing an aviation company he claims was negligent in maintaining a Cessna aircraft he test flew in 2005. | Full Story

A Nebraska man is suing a local attorney and a California firm associated with famed defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran, claiming they mishandled his criminal appeal. | Full Story

DOMINALAW Group pc llo’s arguments to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit produced a split decision, in a complex legal area involving bankruptcy procedure. | Full Story

The Douglas County District Court appointed a former district judge from Lincoln to conduct a statutory investigation of Medico Insurance Company. The appointment came after David Domina’s cross examination of the proposed investigator in open court, and with the consent of his client who initiated a shareholder derivative action against the insurer. | Full Story

A Complex Legal Issue, created by two Federal Statutes enacted nearly 100 years apart, recently served as the backdrop for a remarkable oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco. | Full Story

The United States Supreme Court’s mid-February 2008 decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, impacts efforts by lawyers to find relief for injured clients suffering from the adverse consequences of defective, or misdesigned, medical devices.  Riegel v. Medtronic, number 06-179, decided February 20, 2008, decided a case brought by Mr. and Mrs. Riegel against Medtronic after one of its catheters ruptured in Mr. Riegel’s coronary artery during heart surgery.  They alleged the device was not properly labeled under New York law. | Full Story

DOMINALAW Group pc llo’s Lincoln, Nebraska client decided her successful high school education would be followed by college years in her home town. The young lady, literally the queen of her prom at one of Lincoln’s public high schools, was crossing the street with friends, in a residential area, well dressed and conducting herself appropriately, when a no lights, no sirens, high speed police cruiser responding, silently, to a domestic call, struck her. Since then, for more than a year the young lady has been cast into a persistent vegetative state. | Full Story