LINCOLN- The Nebraska Supreme Court recently rejected fast-tracking a pair of lawsuits seeking to remove an abortion-rights constitutional amendment from the fall ballot. Time is short for either effort, one coming from a Douglas County woman funded by the socially conservative Thomas More Society and the other backed by local abortion opponents.

The second lawsuit was filed Wednesday, hours after the Nebraska Supreme Court declined to take up the first. Attorneys tried to correct a mistake on the first lawsuit and refiled it, but the court again rejected the case Thursday. In the second lawsuit, filed Wednesday, Dr. Catherine Brooks, a Lincoln neonatologist, asked the court to remove the Protect the Right to Abortion measure from the ballot.

Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen has until Sept. 13 to finalize the November general election ballot. He announced on Aug. 23 that the measure qualified for the ballot. There were no immediate comments from either side of the ballot initiative.

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