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The Nebraska Supreme Court says someone who commits sexual harassment shouldn't be able to later sue the victim when the original harassment complaint was true. So the high court declined Friday to intervene in a dispute between two Creighton University Spanish professors. Creighton officials sanctioned Roxana Recio in 2004 for harassing Michelle Evers. Recio later sued Evers in 2006, saying the harassment complaint improperly interfered with Recio's job at Creighton.

Gov. Dave Heineman’s deep displeasure with a Nebraska Supreme Court order staying Carey Dean Moore’s execution was clear. Heineman reacted publicly Thursday, one day after the divided court’s majority put the execution on hold at least until the court rules in another death penalty case. “This unprecedented judicial activism leaves me speechless,” he said in a news release. But Creighton University law Professor Dick Shugrue applauded the court’s decision and was dismissive of the judicial activism remark. “A judicial activist is a judge who decides a case different than the way I wanted it decided,” he said. Omaha Sen. Ernie...