JURIST

MARCH 26, 2025

A US federal judge on Tuesday once again blocked enforcement of an Iowa law that required the removal of books describing sexual acts from public school libraries. However, he emphasized that Iowa schools were already doing that.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

The justices and the litigants devoted substantial time discussing when a party’s decision to adopt an objectively reasonable, but incorrect, interpretation would satisfy the FCA’s knowledge requirement. Split panels of the 7th Circuit had held it was never relevant – a view soundly rejected Tuesday by at least a majority of the justices.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 8, 2023

Will Starbucks wake up and smell the coffee? # # # SOURCE Brownell v Starbucks Coffee Company (Class Action Complaint).

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2022

I’m teaching my usual Introduction to Intellectual Property course, together with an especially large Civil Procedure class (which at Iowa is 4 credit hours), and the Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center is running an exciting speaker series on Genetics, Law and Society.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Joe continues to tinker away and can currently be found in Northwest Iowa. Nicole began her career and practiced for 15 years at an AmLaw 100 firm in Chicago where she was a partner in the litigation department. As a student, I was provided with a lot of opportunities to get involved with the ReInvent program.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Jeffrey Hammons is an Associate Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, IL, where his litigation practice covers issues of pollution control and energy law. FCU-2017-0004 (Iowa Util. Jeffrey graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016. Follow Jeffrey on twitter at @jt_hammons. Comm’n Feb. 24, 2014). [8]

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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.

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Law 360

APRIL 23, 2021

mishandled a COVID-19 outbreak at an Iowa plant could set a legal precedent that would streamline injury litigation over coronavirus exposures and deaths, attorneys say. A jurisdictional issue to be decided by the Eighth Circuit in a suit alleging Tyson Foods Inc.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2021

However, the moment that most struck me was an exchange between Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Maine Chief Deputy Attorney General Christopher Taub where Taub appeared to acknowledge that legislatures have every right to ban critical race theory (CRT) from being taught. He is the Maine Deputy Attorney General.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

1983 claim seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence begins to run at the end of state-court litigation denying DNA testing, including any appeals (as the U.S. Iowa — and otherwise commandeering state courts and state agencies to carry out a federal child-placement program. Goertz , 21-442. Holcombe v. Florida , 21-53. 21 and Feb.

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated an Iowa law on Friday that law requires public school libraries to remove books that are not “age appropriate,” such as when they describe or depict “sex acts.” ” Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R) celebrated the decision.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Dozens of other defense attorneys had similar reactions. 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. But Gibbons told someone.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Iowa — and otherwise commandeering state courts and state agencies to carry out a federal child-placement program. ” After Axon Enterprise acquired a competitor, it found itself subjected to antitrust review by the Federal Trade Commission. The company faced a series of demands from the FTC it viewed as unreasonable. Holcombe v. Sackett v.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Broadbent’s attorney, Chris Nelson, declined an interview request but wrote in an email: “We believe that the allegations against Dr. Broadbent are without merit and will present our case in court. Mike McKell, a Utah County Republican who works as a personal injury attorney. Scott’s attorneys scoffed.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Derivative Litigation , No. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. In re Exxon Mobil Corp. BP America Inc. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2025

Perhaps in part because the parental-notice rule remained on the books, Montana agreed to an order known as a preliminary injunction to put the new parental-consent law on hold while the litigation continued. Procedural hurdles then stalled the litigation for nearly a decade. Iowa Pork Producers Association v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Nebraska , was filed by six states with Republican attorneys general. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit reversed Autrey’s ruling and put the program on hold nationwide to maintain the status quo while litigation continued. Two different challenges to the debt-relief program are now before the Supreme Court. The first case, Biden v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 31, 2025

Im talking about the former representative from Iowa who authored all kinds of political horror , instead. King argued on appeal that attorneys fees are part of those costs. But the Eighth Circuit held that the campaign cannot recover attorneys fees because it is not a prevailing party.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2022

That is why Attorney General Merrick Garland should call for its unsealing. There has never been litigation on the scope of this exemption or a president’s declassification authority. The affidavit remains key to ending this speculation and quelling conspiracy theories. The Justice Department explained in an Aug.

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