Appellate Courts Offices

Appellate Courts Offices

Clerk of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals

Erika B. Schafer, Acting Clerk

P.O. Box 98910
Lincoln, NE  68509

Physical Address:
Room 2413, State Capitol
1445 K Street
Phone: (402) 471-3731
Fax: (402) 471-3480

 

The Clerk’s office serves both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals by providing timely processing and assignment of motions and of appeals for oral argument. The staff works with both courts to accurately and efficiently convey the rulings of each court to all counsel and pro se litigants. They also maintain the court calendar and produce the courts’ listings of upcoming cases. All efforts combine to assist the appellate courts in the processing of appeals in the most expeditious manner.

Supreme Court

Court of Appeals

Electronic filing on Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases is available for all attorneys.  Visit the eFIling page of the Judicial Branch website for more information.


Reporter of Decisions Office

Peggy Polacek

P.O. Box 98910
Lincoln, Nebraska 68509

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 98910
Lincoln, NE 68509
Phone: (402) 471-3739
Fax: (402) 471-1310
peggy.polacek@nebraska.gov

The Nebraska Appellate Courts Online Library is the repository of the official published judicial opinions of the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Nebraska Court of Appeals.  Effective January 1, 2016, the Nebraska Supreme Court designated the online certified PDF opinion as the official court opinion for the Nebraska appellate courts, beginning with Volume 275 of the Nebraska Reports and Volume 16 of the Nebraska Appellate Reports.  All previous official bound volumes of the appellate courts are available on the online library in scanned PDF format.  See Neb. Ct. R. App. P. §§ 2-112(C) and 2-102(E)(3).

The online library was created as a service to the public to increase accessibility to the official opinions by providing them free of charge in a permanent manner, thereby containing costs and increasing operational efficiency.

Advance opinions and lists released by the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Nebraska Court of Appeals are accessible on the Judicial Branch Website via links to the Nebraska Appellate Courts Online Library for 90 days.  The advance opinions and lists are also accessible on the online library.  Once an advance opinion becomes certified, it will replace the advance opinion and will become part of the permanent online library.

Posting Times:  Generally, the Supreme Court opinions are filed 8 a.m. on Fridays, and the Court of Appeals opinions are filed 8 a.m. on Tuesdays, on the day on which they are released.

Subscribe to Alerts:  Free automatice updates from the Nebraska Judicial Branch, including judicial opinions are available by subscription.  Subscribe.

SCCALES:  The appellate courts' case management computer system, SCCALES, provides access to appellate court case records through a paid Nebraska.gov subscription.