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US appeals court upholds preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of Texas immigration law SB4 pending litigation

JURIST

A three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB) 4 , will remain on hold as litigation continues. SB4, the controversial Texas law that is the subject of this continued litigation, was originally signed into law in December 2023.

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Iowa governor seeks to reinstate six-week abortion ban

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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds Tuesday announced her administration would seek to reinstate a 2018 state law prohibiting abortion after six weeks, when embryonic cardiac activity is detected. The law was blocked by a state judge back in 2019 for violating the Iowa Constitution, but Reynolds’ administration is hoping that the recent Dobbs v.

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Opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals announces $4.35B settlement with state, local governments

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State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. The states are led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. In the settlement, Teva agreed to pay $4.25 billion in cash over 13 years.

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Law School Canons: You can’t always “have it your way!”

Patently O

ISE is an Iowa LLC with its principal place of business in Coralville, Iowa (in the Northern District of Iowa). Factor 1 – the burden on the defendant: PerDiemCo argued that litigating anywhere other than the Eastern District of Texas would impose an undue burden. and litigating patents away from D.C. Trimble, Inc.

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Two Iowa Colleges Sued Over Tuition Costs During COVID-19 Pandemic

LegalReader

A student attending Wartburg College filed a class-action lawsuit over the cost of tuition after “losing on-campus educational time and in-person resources amid the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Arbitration clauses, prejudicial delays, and one justice’s contract-law “nightmare”

SCOTUSBlog

This case began when Robyn Morgan filed in Iowa federal court a wage-and-hour complaint on behalf of herself and similarly situated employees against Sundance, Inc., a Taco Bell franchisee. Finally, about eight months after Morgan filed her complaint, Sundance moved to compel arbitration of Morgan’s claims.

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Is turnabout fair play under the Federal Arbitration Act?

SCOTUSBlog

But what happens if a party begins to litigate a case, and then seeks to compel arbitration several months later? Robyn Morgan worked at a Sundance-owned Taco Bell in Iowa in 2015, and the application that she used to apply for her job contained an arbitration clause. In Morgan v. Finally, the parties make dueling policy arguments.