City of Elkhorn v. City of Omaha

The City of Omaha, Nebraska, and the City of Elkhorn, Nebraska, raced to pass ordinances to annex' territories that would expand their respective boundaries. Omaha’s ordinances sought to annex land that would make it contiguous and adjacent to Elkhorn, thus allowing Omaha to annex Elkhorn. Elkhorn’s annexation ordinance, on the other hand, sought to annex surrounding sanitary improvement districts (SIDs) to raise Elkhorn’s population to over 10,000, which would immunize it from unilateral annexation by Omaha. See Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-117 (Cum. Supp. 2006).

Despite Elkhorn’s attempt to annex…