Eugene Sikora sued the State of Iowa and the Iowa Corrections Director seeking money damages claiming he was wrongly imprisoned for about five months longer than the law allowed due to a miscalculation by the Department of Corrections. The Iowa Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, held that Sikora’s claim for money damages f …
A police officer legally searched a fanny pack after a suspect had removed it and handed it to a companion, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a June 20 decision, because the fanny pack was removed at the moment the officer was attempting to handcuff and arrest the suspect.
Warrantless searches of trash cans that had been barred by the 2021 decision under the Iowa Constitution’s equivalent of the Fourth Amendment are now lawful, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a decision handed down June 13.
Owners of farmland whose surface water flows naturally onto neighboring properties have no control over how the downstream neighbors manage the water once it arrives on their land, provided the neighbors do no harm to upstream land owners, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a June 6 ruling.
A prosecutor cannot be monetarily sanctioned for misconduct in a criminal case, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a unanimous decision in response to what the Court said appeared to be an unprecedented sanction ordered by a district court. The decision in Christensen v. Iowa District Court for Story County was handed down May 30.
Eugene Sikora sued the State of Iowa and the Iowa Corrections Director seeking money damages claiming he was wrongly imprisoned for about five months longer than the law allowed due to a miscalculation by the Department of Corrections. The Iowa Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, held that Sikora’s claim for money damages f …
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed the Iowa Court of Appeals’ decision in part in McClure v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., a case regarding a former Corteva Agriscience (“Corteva”) employee’s termination and the employee’s allegations of discrimination and retaliation against Corteva.
A police officer legally searched a fanny pack after a suspect had removed it and handed it to a companion, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a June 20 decision, because the fanny pack was removed at the moment the officer was attempting to handcuff and arrest the suspect.
In Estate of Kahn v. City of Clermont, the Iowa Supreme Court reversed the district court’s decision to dismiss two estates’ claims for premises liability and negligence brought against the City of Clermont, Fayette County Conservation Board, Fayette County, and the State of Iowa.
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