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LINCOLN, Neb. – The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals released a decision today in an ongoing legal challenge to a requirement that petitioners must collect a certain number of signatures from 38 Nebraska counties to qualify for the statewide ballot.
Along with the demands, the letter includes a litigation hold that instructs recipients to preserve certain documents, effectively warning that the ACLU of Nebraska is considering litigation.
Congress passed ICWA in 1978 to address a nationwide crisis of child welfare agencies forcibly removing Indigenous children from their homes and placing them into non-Native homes at disproportionate rates.
Four years after the raid, work to bring accountability continues.
The website marks an evolution of the groups’ ongoing partnership to protect abortion access in Nebraska.
The appeal asks the board to reverse earlier approval of the project.