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Kearney venue facts

County

Buffalo County, Nebraska

Trial court of general jurisdiction

District Court

Sources: Nebraska Judicial Branch, District Court: the general jurisdiction trial courts, where, with a few exceptions, civil and criminal cases of all types may be commenced, which also decide appeals from most county court cases; the system also includes the separate juvenile courts of Douglas, Lancaster and Sarpy counties and a statewide Workers' Compensation Court (reviewed 2026-10-12); Nebraska Judicial Branch, County Court: trial courts of limited jurisdiction; civil cases involving $70,000 or less, shared with the district courts as some divorce cases are, misdemeanors, probate, small claims and most juvenile matters outside Douglas, Lancaster and Sarpy counties (reviewed 2026-10-12); Nebraska Judicial Branch, Filing Fees and Court Costs: the county court civil jurisdictional limit of $70,000 (reviewed 2026-10-12); Nebraska Judicial Branch, Separate Juvenile Courts: the separate juvenile courts of Douglas, Lancaster and Sarpy counties, for neglected, dependent and delinquent children (reviewed 2026-10-12); Nebraska Judicial Branch, Workers' Compensation Court: statewide, original jurisdiction of claims for workers' compensation benefits (reviewed 2026-10-12); Nebraska Judicial Branch, Court of Appeals: the intermediate Court of Appeals, to which most cases are appealed rather than to the Supreme Court (reviewed 2026-10-12)

Appellate court

Nebraska Court of Appeals

Federal district

District of Nebraska

Forums and agencies in Nebraska

Workers' compensation claims arising in Nebraska are heard before the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court; the Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation (NE VR) is Nebraska's public vocational rehabilitation agency. Attorneys confirm the governing rule for their case.

Sources: Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court (reviewed 2026-09-11)

Commuting flows, Buffalo County

In the 2016-2020 American Community Survey commuting flows, the largest flows of workers into Buffalo County came from Kearney County (1,139 workers), Dawson County (763) and Hall County (668), and the largest flows out of Buffalo County went to Hall County (1,129 workers), Dawson County (402) and Phelps County (340).

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2016-2020 American Community Survey, county-to-county commuting flows (Table 1) (reviewed 2026-09-13)