§ 6-1518. Appeals; statement of errors; mandate; bills of exceptions from other tribunals.

§ 6-1518. Appeals; statement of errors; mandate; bills of exceptions from other tribunals.

   (A) Bills of exceptions from county court. In appeals from the county court to the district court and where a bill of exceptions is requested to be prepared, the bill of exceptions filed in the county court proceeding shall be transmitted electronically from the county court to the district court and filed in the district court. Upon filng the bill of exceptions, the clerk of the district court shall send notice to the parties using JUSTICE procedures. The bill of exceptions shall be the official record of the proceedings and shall be considered by the district court without being offered and received in evidence.

   (B) Statement of errors.

   Within 20 days of filing the bill of exceptions in an appeal to the district court, the appellant shall file with the district court a statement of errors which shall consist of a separate, concise statement of each error a party contends was made by the trial court. Each assignment of error shall be separately numbered and paragraphed. Consideration of the cause will be limited to errors assigned, provided that the district court may, at its option, notice plain error not assigned. This rule shall not apply to small claims appeals.

   (C) Mandates.

    (1) Within 2 judicial days after the decision of the district court becomes final, the clerk shall issue a mandate and transmit the same to the clerk of the county court on the form prescribed by the Nebraska Supreme Court together with a copy of the district court’s decision.

   (2) The clerk shall notify the clerk of the county court if any matter appealed from the county court is thereafter appealed to the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals. Such notice shall be sent to the county court within 2 days after the date the notice of appeal is filed in the district court.

   (3) The clerk shall notify the clerk of the county court of receipt of a mandate from the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals within 2 days after the mandate is received by the district court on cases that originated in the county court.

   (D) Bills of Exceptions From Other Tribunals.

   (1) Any court reporting personnel approved by the court, board, or tribunal from which the appeal or error proceedings is taken may attend and record the trial or proceedings and prepare a bill of exceptions, certified to be true and complete by such court reporting personnel, and file the same with the chief clerical officer of such court, board, or tribunal who shall certify the bill of exceptions as the official record of the proceedings. Proposed amendments not agreed to shall be heard and determined by such court, board, or tribunal as provided in Neb. Ct. R. App. P. § 2-105(G). The completed bill of exceptions shall be filed electronically in the district court within the time provided by law and, if no time be fixed, before the case is submitted to the reviewing court.

   (2) The clerk of the district court shall promptly notify the court reporting personnel serving the district court judge to whom the case is assigned of the filing of the bill of exceptions from the court, board, or tribunal. Said court reporting personnel shall review the bill of exceptions for the purpose of determining whether it has been prepared in compliance with Neb. Ct. R. App. P. §§ 2-105.01 and 2-105.02. If in the opinion of the court reporting personnel the bill of exceptions has not been so prepared, the court reporting personnel shall advise the judge to whom the case is assigned for such action as the judge deems appropriate.

   (3) The bill of exceptions from the court, board, or tribunal filed in the district court shall be the official record and shall be considered by the district court without being offered and received in evidence.

   (E) The absence of a mandatory document from the transcript must be raised by a party prior to submission of the appeal to the district court.

Rule 18 amended November 18, 1998. Renumbered and codified as § 6-1518, effective July 18, 2008; § 6-1518 amended June 9, 2021, effective January 1, 2022; § 6-1518(A) and (B) amended August 23, 2023, effective November 1, 2023.