Nebraska Supreme Court

The Nebraska Supreme Court is the highest court of the U.S. state of Nebraska. It has a chief justice, who is appointed and retained at large, and six associate justices, each of whom represents one of six Supreme Court districts. Justices are first appointed by the governor under the Missouri Plan and then face retention votes for further six-year terms. Nebraska is one of only two states, with North Dakota, that require a supermajority, five of the seven justices, before a court may declare a legislative provision unconstitutional. The court meets monthly in the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln. Its history runs back to the Territorial Supreme Court set up after the Kansas-Nebraska Act in May 1854, and a 1908 constitutional amendment fixed the present bench of one chief justice and six associates.