Attorney General Miller Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Strike Down Prop 8 and DOMA
By Ryan Koopmans
Yesterday, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Holli …
Bury Me in Satin, Pretty Please
By Ryan Koopmans
Today, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that Iowa law does not allow a person to control the final disposition of her remains. In a split decision, the Court held that Iowa’s Final Disposition Act, Chapter 144C, provides a compre …
Two appellate-jurisdiction issues; two circuit splits. Next year’s moot-court competition?
By Ryan Koopmans
Yesterday, the Eighth Circuit decided Ruppert v. Principal Life Insurance Company read more
Beneficiaries of Revocable Trusts Have No Right to Accounting of Trust Activities Prior to Settlor’s Death
Eighth Circuit Panel Split Over Whether Statute of Limitations Binds Court’s Sua Sponte Authority
By Ryan Koopmans
Last week in United States v. Daily, a majority of a three-judge …
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Des Moines Water Works lawsuit is teed up for the Iowa Supreme Court’s next term
The Des Moines Water Works lawsuit against 10 agricultural drainage districts in three northern Iowa counties will not be tried in federal court in Sioux City for more than a year. But the nature of the lawsuit could be substantially altered by the Iowa Supreme Court as early as this fall. …
Iowa trucking company gets unanimous U.S. Supreme Court victory
A sexual harassment lawsuit against Cedar Rapids trucking company CRST that has bounced around the federal courts for more than a decade took yet another bounce at the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday.
The history of this case is so contorted that the Supreme Co …
Iowa Court of Appeals: Reversing an agency’s fact-based ruling is the “Bigfoot of the legal community”
By Ryan Koopmans
When an administrative agency makes a ruling that depends, at least in part, upon factual determinations, it’s difficult to get that ruling overturned on appeal. This morning, in
It has been a matter of law in Iowa for more than four decades that tenants have a right to expect that a rented apartment or house will be fit for human habitation. The Iowa Supreme Court last week clarified the meaning of that right in a
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