JURIST
JUNE 29, 2022
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.
JURIST
MARCH 27, 2024
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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Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]
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.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The appellate panel ruled unanimously for Rep. 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. Effectively, Lizza renewed and added to his prior comments in the view of the court.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 4, 2023
When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. In 2009, Harpster learned about a double homicide in Woodbury County, Iowa, from a television documentary. Thousands of emails, police reports and other documents led to a web of thousands more in new states.
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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