2016-17 Iowa Supreme Court preview: Do high school baseball dugouts need to be completely enclosed?
Muscatine High School was at bat in the fifth inning and Spencer Ludman was waiting in the dugout for his turn at bat when a foul ball rocketed off a Davenport Assumption player’s bat and struck Ludman in the head. He suffered a skull fracture, spent months recovering from brain injuries and …
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2016-17 Iowa Supreme Court status report: 69 down; 49 to go
Tomorrow the Iowa Supreme Court is expected to hand down one decision, which will bring to 69 the number of cases disposed of in the first seven months of the 2016-17 term.
After the release of tomorrow’s decision, 43 submitted cases will remain to be d …
read moreNorthern District Judge Edward J. McManus (1920-2017): A half-century on the bench
U.S. District Judge Edward J. (“Nick”) McManus of Cedar Rapids died Monday. He was 97.
McManus, a native of Keokuk, attended St. Ambrose College in Davenport for two years before transferring to the University of Iowa where he earned bachelor …
read moreIowa Supreme Court 2016-17 preview: Did Iowa’s anti-slavery delegates in 1857 give criminal defendants broader rights today?
Eight years before the Civil War, drafters of the Iowa Constitution incorporated language into the Bill of Rights aimed at protecting the rights of fugitive slaves who traveled to Iowa. A convicted murderer is now asking the Iowa Supreme Court to apply that language in granting his bid for a ne …
read moreQuit horsin’ around! Your 38-year-old horse doesn’t make you a farmer.
By Ryan Leemkuil
Does a single horse grazing on your property make you a farmer?
Not so, said a majority of the Iowa Supreme Court in read more
Iowa Supreme Court denies review of Harrison County open meetings ruling by Court of Appeals
Iowa Supreme Court 2016-17 preview: Does confidentiality in a ‘morbidity and mortality’ report apply to a dislocated shoulder?
Dennis Willard was admitted to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for treatment of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. Among his injuries was a dislocated shoulder, but Willard alleges that was inflicted by hospital staff while he was sedated. Now he is asking the Iowa Supreme …
read moreIowa Supreme Court: The Constitution does not require special treatment for juveniles on restitution orders
The Iowa Supreme Court has declined to add another criminal-sentencing exception for juvenile offenders in a pair of rulings regarding Iowa’s mandatory $150,000 restitution in murder cases.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a series of cases over the la …
read moreIowa Supreme Court oral argument recap: Justices see a problem with jury selection, but no easy solution
It’s not often a lawyer can predict the outcome of a case based on an appellate court oral argument. But more than one Iowa Supreme Court justice readily acknowledged Tuesday that Des Moines attorney Gary Dickey exposed a constitutional problem with Iowa’s process for selecting jurie …
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Iowa Supreme Court should overturn 2018 ruling protecting abortion choice, State argues in appeal
The Iowa Supreme Court should overturn its 2018 ruling that the Iowa Constitution protects the fundamental right of a woman to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy, the State of Iowa argues in an appeal to the court in a case to be argued …
Appeals court upholds injunction against Iowa’s ban on mask mandates in schools, but wants it narrowed
A group of Iowa parents of children with disabilities who sued the State to block enforcement of a state law banning mask mandates in schools are entitled to a preliminary injunction, but it should be narrowly tailored to apply only to schools with students with disabilities.
That is the thrust of a 27-page
The Iowa Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in nine cases Wednesday and Thursday, and five other cases will be submitted to the Court without oral argument. Following are summaries of the January cases. Go to On Brief’s “Cases in the Pipeline” page to rea … An attorney seeking public disclosure of law enforcement records related to the fatal shooting of a Burlington woman by a police officer in 2015 has standing to pursue his case in Polk County District Court, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Dec. 30 in
On Brief: Iowa’s Appellate Blog is devoted to appellate litigation with a focus on the Iowa Supreme Court, the Iowa Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.Iowa Supreme Court to hear 9 cases January 19 and 20
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