HowAppealing

MAY 5, 2023

“Iowa Supreme Court overturns 2017 ruling that allowed constitutional claims against state”: William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Iowa issued today.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Iowa Rule of Evidence 5.403 states that Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 2, 2022

“Transgender former nurse wins discrimination case against state at Iowa Supreme Court”: William Morris has this front page article in today’s edition of The Des Moines Register. You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Iowa at this link.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 14, 2025

“Iowa Supreme Court dismisses alleged UIHC illicit insemination case; A case alleging a former University of Iowa OB-GYN chair non-consensually inseminated patients with his own sperm in the 1950s cannot go to trial”: Jami Martin-Trainor of The Daily Iowan has this report.

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JULY 27, 2022

Kim Reynolds appoints appeals court Judge David May to Iowa Supreme Court”: Ian Richardson and Stephen Gruber-Miller of The Des Moines Register have this report. “Gov.

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ABA Journal

JULY 5, 2022

The Iowa Supreme Court has made it more difficult for landowners to sue neighboring hog farms for nuisances created by pollution and odor. The state…

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 14, 2024

A federal appeals court on Friday allowed an Iowa law to take effect that polices books in school libraries, saying a federal judge who blocked…

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The post Iowa Lawyer’s ‘Rhetorical Hyperbole’ Could Land Him 60 Day Suspension appeared first on Above the Law. Imagine being unemployed over a "That's what she said" joke.among other things.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2025

The DAPL is a “1,1172-mile underground oil pipeline” that transports oil from the “Bakken region in North Dakota, across South Dakota and Iowa, to Patoka, Illinois.” We will see Energy Transfer in court this July in the Netherlands. We will not back down. We will not be silenced.

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HowAppealing

MAY 23, 2022

“Former Iowa Taco Bell worker wins at U.S. Supreme Court in wage-theft lawsuit”: William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“How Iowa Supreme Court’s McDermott, Oxley have decided big cases”: Laura Belin has this post at her “Bleeding Heartland” blog. The post “How Iowa Supreme Court’s McDermott, Oxley have decided big cases” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 13, 2021

“Iowa Chief Justice: Court system ‘turned on its head’ but ‘did not succumb’ to pandemic.” ” William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report.

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HowAppealing

MAY 17, 2022

“No mask mandates in Iowa schools, for now, court rules; exceptions could be made in future”: Ian Richardson of The Des Moines Register has this report on a per curiam decision that the majority on a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued yesterday.

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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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Above The Law

JANUARY 2, 2024

The post Iowa Judge Tosses Book Ban That Would Have Barred The Use Of Pronouns In Schools appeared first on Above the Law. Drafting is hard, even when everyone understands that you're trying to legislate bigotry.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 29, 2025

Iowa cant enforce a law making it a crime for immigrants to be in the state if they reentered the country illegally after formerly being denied entry or ordered deported, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2022

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld a Dakota Access Pipeline protester’s 8-year prison term in a per curiam decision. Reznicek used a blowtorch to cut holes in the Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa. Reznicek appealed the trial court’s decision, arguing that the court erred by enhancing the charges.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2023

“How Would This Supreme Court Rule on Book Banning? A lawsuit filed in federal court in Iowa is one of a number of cases that may eventually come before the Court. The post “How Would This Supreme Court Rule on Book Banning? The post “How Would This Supreme Court Rule on Book Banning?

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HowAppealing

MAY 27, 2022

“The last Democrat-appointed Iowa Supreme Court justice retiring; Justice Brent Appel’s replacement will be the 5th out of 7 justices appointed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds”: Erin Murphy of The Gazette of Cedar Rapids has this report.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 18, 2022

“Iowa Supreme Court does not have authority to reinstate 2018 fetal heartbeat bill, opponents’ attorneys argue; Attorneys for the groups that successfully challenged the law in 2019 filed their response to recent arguments by attorneys for Gov.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 25, 2022

Divided Eighth Circuit panel upholds limited injunction barring enforcement in certain instances of Iowa law prohibiting mask requirements in schools: You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 18, 2021

Neither federal law nor Iowa law required vacating $200,000 punitive damages award simply because the jury awarded zero in compensatory damages: You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The court rejected this argument. In October 2022, the US Supreme Court was asked to review Mississippi’s felony disenfranchisement provisions because of their racist origins.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Parents Advocating for Safe Schools (PASS), an association of Minnesota parents, filed suit against the state of Minnesota and Governor Timothy Walz, asking the court to order Walz to impose a statewide mask requirement for all public schools. Pass also asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order compelling Walz to require masks.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

“California’s war on breakfast wages on, and Iowa farmers need justices to act; The Supreme Court should review a challenge to the state’s law dictating how bacon and eggs are produced elsewhere”: U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has this essay online at The Des Moines Register.

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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. Both lawsuits ask the court to immediately halt implementation of the plan.

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EvidenceProf Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Colorado, the Supreme Court held that where a juror makes a clear statement that indicates he or she relied on racial stereotypes or animus to convict a criminal defendant, the Sixth Amendment requires that the no-impeachment rule. In Pena-Rodriguez v.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A mother didn’t commit the crime of child endangerment when she left five children ages 5 to 12 home alone while she shopped for groceries at Walmart, the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous opinion.

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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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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 10, 2021

“8th Circuit court partially upholds Iowa’s 2012 ‘ag-gag’ law; a new lawsuit challenges the state’s 2021 statute”: William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

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LegalReader

MARCH 21, 2021

The student, Sydney Warner, filed the suit in Bremer County District Court over allegations that the “value of the remote learning provided by the college was less than the.

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HowAppealing

MAY 12, 2023

” The post “Supreme Court won’t review constitutionality of Medicaid coverage ban for trans surgery” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2024

The need to consider the value of the book as a whole, or its literary, scientific or political value, is part of the obscenity test outlined in the 1973 US Supreme Court case Miller v California. The Court found that where work is not considered obscene, it is constitutionally protected expression under the First Amendment.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 11, 2025

Next week, Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger will be the distinguished lecturer at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The University says that speakers who participate in the annual Constitutional Law Centers Distinguished Lecture Series “deliver a formal lecture, teach a class, and meet with students in informal settings.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2021

US Chief Justice John Roberts praised the heroic efforts of information technology departments across the country for their role in keeping the federal courts functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic in his annual report released Thursday, lauding new partnerships and innovations implemented in various districts to maintain safety for all.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 18, 2021

This morning, Friday, June 25, 2021, the Iowa Supreme Court filed decisions in two cases involving Iowa's private sector drug and alcohol testing law.

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