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. appeared first on Above the Law. Lawmakers hope new regulations can combat hiding assets in the states. DesMoines Register ].

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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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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. Lamoureux v.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Hsuanyeh Law Group v. 2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. A key case on point is Iowa S.

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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. NetChoice , a recent Supreme Court ruling on speech regulation.

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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 June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. The district court agreed, and the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For torts scholars, it has been a bonanza of interesting issues touching on every element of defamation law. There is now an important ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that could have enormous implications not just for the media but anyone who retweets stories or claims.

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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 10th Circuit affirmed. Next up is Kelly v. Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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JURIST

JUNE 17, 2022

The Iowa Supreme Court Friday held in Planned Parenthood v. The decision overturns a 2018 ruling which held there is a fundamental right to abortion in Iowa. Planned Parenthood sued to challenge a 2020 law which requires a 24 hour waiting period before an abortion. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

It can be next to impossible to see how law enforcement — in league with paid, self-styled “experts” — spreads new, often unproven methods. The system is at its most opaque when prosecutors know evidence is unfit for court but choose to game the rules, hoping judges and juries will believe it and vote to convict. I was wrong.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Iowa District Court for Polk County Monday upheld a permanent injunction on S.F. 359 , a 2018 law restricting abortion at about six weeks, once an abdominal ultrasound can detect fetal cardiac activity. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. In Dobbs v.

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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. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will sway the court. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will sway the court.

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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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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

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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JURIST

JULY 26, 2024

A US federal court Wednesday blocked the Department of Education’s Final Rule prohibiting sex discrimination against LGBTQ+ students from taking effect in six states. The plaintiffs in the suit were Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

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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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2025

The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees citizens that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. In 2023, Rachel Wall, a now former school board member in Marion, Iowa, posted on Facebook : The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want.

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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.” Concepcion involved a state law that treated arbitration clauses unfavorably. Share Ten years ago, in AT&T v. Sundance, Inc. The justices asked the U.S.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Texas women are exempt from criminal charges under SB8, the state’s highly restrictive new anti-abortion law. 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.

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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. Under the law, a person has no censorship rights for their ads (and reasonable access rights for Federal candidates) only if they can show that they are a "legally qualified candidate. Is this system fair?

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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. Sexual assault, to me, is not medical care.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

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. The Democratic National Committee challenged the two Arizona laws.

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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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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. The court then concluded that none of the exceptions to the well-pleaded complaint rule applied. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S.

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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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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). ” He then donated $25,000 to the Trump campaign under his own name.

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