JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Thursday that plaintiffs cannot recover punitive damages from the state when a law enforcement officer uses excessive force. The Iowa Tort Claims Act (ITCA) prohibits an award of punitive damages against the state. Jensen had a gun at the scene and Officer Spece knew of his condition.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“Iowa’s ‘fetal heartbeat’ abortion law to remain blocked, court rules; Kim Reynolds to appeal”: William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report. ” You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Iowa District Court for Polk County at this link. .”

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HowAppealing

MARCH 23, 2021

“Court: University of Iowa officials can be held liable for First Amendment violations; Decision is ‘going to be very important for religious student groups across the country.'” ” Vanessa Miller has this front page article in today’s edition of The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ” Ryan J.

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American Legal Net

JULY 20, 2021

New Court Rule Sets Available : Iowa District Court, 8 th Judicial District ( IA08 ). Courts Removed. The post July 15, 2021 Court Rules Update appeared first on American Legal Net.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 25, 2022

The top state courts in Iowa and Massachusetts have ruled that restaurants can’t recover COVID-19 shutdown losses from "business interruption" policies. The Iowa Supreme Court…

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JURIST

APRIL 1, 2024

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida vs. State of Florida allows the current 15-week abortion ban to be upheld and triggers the Heartbeat Protection Act to take effect. Wade in 2022.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 26, 2022

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that an Iowa law banning mask mandates at public schools shouldn’t be read to prevent masks when needed…

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The state attorneys generals of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina alleged in a federal Missouri court that Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan is unauthorized and poses economic harm to working class individuals. According to the AP , the White House dismissed the lawsuit as baseless.

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JURIST

MARCH 14, 2024

A federal judge blocked portions of Iowa’s book ban law in December and an appeals court ruled in January that a Texas law targeting “sexually explicit” material likely violates the Constitution.

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Above The Law

APRIL 22, 2022

One man's trash is another's 4th amendment violation.for now: Iowa Gov. wants to overturn an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that bans cops from searching people's trash without a warrant. . * Show me the money! Lawmakers hope new regulations can combat hiding assets in the states. DesMoines Register ].

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

The NYC Bar’s position is in contrast with that of several other courts that have condemned copying in briefs as plagiarism. A key case on point is Iowa S. 2d 756, 757 (Iowa 2010). I suspect the Winston attorneys are likely happy to be in NY rather than Iowa. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d In the case of White v.

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JURIST

MARCH 27, 2024

Chief Judge Priscilla Richman, writing for the majority, concluded that Texas did not successfully meet its evidentiary burden for a stay of the lower court ruling , which issued a preliminary injunction stopping the law’s enforcement pending litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Iowa and other states prohibit texting while driving but allow cellphone usage for other purposes, such as navigation. Iowa , police officers pulled Struve over after observing Struve using a cellphone – for an unidentifiable reason – for 10 seconds while driving. In Steven Struve’s case, Struve v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Instead, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld “general jurisdiction” over Cooper on the ground that Cooper, by registering as a foreign corporation in Georgia, had consented to suit in Georgia as a condition of doing business in the state. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upholding a similar Iowa law. Last up is Grzegorczyk v.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA, built in 1902, is an example of how exclusionary zoning policies exposed African Americans to health hazards, says a University of Iowa paper. the legacy of exclusionary housing and zoning policies largely remains unaddressed, writes a University of Iowa law professor Shannon Roesler.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Friday temporarily stayed the Biden administration’s federal student loan forgiveness plan. Last Thursday, a lower court ruled that the states lacked standing because their future harm was too speculative, and the case was dismissed.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Nunes will be allowed to litigate his claim that Lizza defamed him by claiming that he secretly moved his farm from California to Iowa and linked the move to the alleged use of undocumented labor. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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The Crime Report

JULY 8, 2021

Governor of California , the courts ruled that indefinite confinement of alleged gang members was a human rights violation. That ruling resulted in the state of California having to reduce its solitary confinement population by 97 percent. In Ashker v. To read his earlier columns in The Crime Report, please click here.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday rejected the Biden Administration’s attempt to stay a lower court ruling which found President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan unlawful. The Supreme Court has yet to respond. .

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. See Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Memorandum 4 (Dec. What we do know comes mostly from self-reporting, industry reports, and journalists.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: How SCOTUS gutting Chevron could haunt Republicans (Pamela King, E&E News) The Brutal Past and Uncertain Future of Native Adoptions (Gabrielle Glaser, The New York Times) The US Supreme Court upheld Proposition 12. What’s next for pork producers in Iowa?

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2009, Harpster learned about a double homicide in Woodbury County, Iowa, from a television documentary. As Esteves, the prosecutor in Iowa, put it in an email: “Have them testify why this 911 call is inconsistent with an innocent caller, consistent with someone with a guilty mind.”.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2011

With the Iowa primary approaching, political ads are increasing on the local Iowa TV stations. Some of the planned ads have graphic depictions of the results of abortions. These ads are disturbing to some, and many viewers (and many stations) are concerned and upset about their being broadcast - so why are stations running them?

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will. Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. In Iowa, in 2010, Christine Taylor was charged with attempted feticide after she fell down the stairs at home.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2023

In Nebraska , the States of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina claimed the plan would deprive them of their tax revenue. The district court dismissed the suit for lack of Article III standing, stating they could independently alter their tax policies.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Concepcion , the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to put arbitration agreements “on an equal footing with other contracts.” On Monday, the court agreed to hear a lawsuit from a fast-food worker who alleges that a lower court treated an arbitration clause too favorably.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will fast-track a challenge to the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program and hear oral argument in February, the court said Thursday. The $400 billion program will remain on hold in the meantime due to lower-court rulings that have blocked the government from implementing it.

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2024

.” Since the US Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Similar proposals that also reference the Meet Baby Olivia video have been introduced in Kentucky, West Virginia, North Dakota, Missouri, and Iowa.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Similarly, the court has ruled that a boy harmed by another child while in foster care was also bound by medical malpractice law. Despite these state Supreme Court rulings, Utah legislators have so far not moved to narrow the wording of the malpractice act. I was frustrated,” she said, “and I felt defeated. …

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Brnovich v. Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

” Benton argued that his 2020 pardon , granted by Trump, prevented prosecutors from bringing up his previous campaign finance conviction for bribing an Iowa politician to switch his endorsement in 2011 to former US Representative Ron Paul (L-TX).

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