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Police Chief in Iowa Indicted for Unlawfully Obtaining, Possessing Machine Guns

The Crime Report

Bradley Wendt, Chief of Police in Adair, Iowa, allegedly used his position as police chief to obtain 10 machine guns, which he said were for the duties of his department. However, according to a Department of Justice release , he is accused of reselling the weapons for a hefty profit.

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Federal appeals court rules mask mandate ban must include exception for disabled children

JURIST

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Tuesday ruled that plaintiffs in The Arc of Iowa v. Under the terms of the injunction, Iowa’s ban on school mask mandates must include an exception for schools with disabled students who are at elevated risk due to COVID-19. One student, “S.V.,”

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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., Section 2 directs that arbitration contracts are enforceable in federal court, except “upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”

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Tyson Faces Longer Odds At 8th Circ. Over COVID-19 Deaths

Law 360

Tyson Foods supervisors in Iowa allegedly ran a betting pool early in the pandemic on how many employees would contract COVID-19 despite local demands to idle the processing facility, and now the odds are stacking against the company in an Eighth Circuit fight over proper venue for wrongful death claims, with the federal government stepping in to back (..)

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Texas sues Biden administration over vaccine mandate for federal contractor employees

JURIST

On September 9 th , President Biden issued a pair of executive orders requiring that all executive branch federal employees and federal contracts be vaccinated. Moreover, all federal contracts must include the clause beginning on November 14. The lawsuit argues that the mandate is an illegal overreach.

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“Innovating Ways to Resist, Heal, Liberate”: California Educators Defend Contract for “Woke Kindergarten”

JonathanTurley

Hayward Unified School District Superintendent Jason Reimann actually defended the contract and insisted that it was successful because attendance has gone up almost 20%. That view was captured in the comment of Iowa school board member Rachel Wall, who said: “The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want.

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Is turnabout fair play under the Federal Arbitration Act?

SCOTUSBlog

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. The Iowa court rejected Sundance’s argument, after which the company answered Morgan’s complaint; that answer also did not assert that Morgan was obligated to arbitrate her case.