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Corporate Defendant

D. Neb. Local Rule 43.1

A corporate defendant need not be present at criminal proceedings and may proceed through the defense attorney, if the attorney is authorized to act on the defendant's behalf in the proceedings through a specific corporate resolution from the defendant's board of directors. When the attorney is not authorized to act, the defendant's authorized officer, director, or managing agent must be at the proceedings identified in Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a).
Official source: https://www.ned.uscourts.gov/internetDocs/localrules/NEGenR.2025.pdf · retrieved 2026-07-23