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The Streak Ends: Justice Zager Dissents
By Ryan Koopmans
On Friday, Justice Zager was the lone dissenter in Office of Citizens’ Aid/Ombudsman v. Edwards. …
Eighth Circuit Creates Intra-Circuit Conflict–In One Day
Iowa Supreme Court to Hear Birth-Certificate Case Brought By Same-Sex Couple
By Ryan Koopmans
This afternoon, the Iowa Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Gartner v. Iowa Department of Public Health, which presents the following issue: …
Justice Wiggins Authors Rare Dissent in Attorney-Discipline Case
By Ryan Koopmans
On Friday, Justice Wiggins departed from his six colleagues in two attorney-discipline cases. That’s news, mostly because it’s rare. According to Justice Wiggins, no justice has dissented in an attorney-discipline case in s …
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Griffin v. Pate: Does the meaning of “infamous crime” come down to what Justice Appel thinks?
By Ryan Koopmans
This morning, the Iowa Supreme Court will hear argument over what kinds of felons (if any) can vote. The Iowa Constitution says that a person who’s been convicted of an “infamous crime” can’t be an “elector” (whi …
Justice Ward Reynoldson (1920-2016): A humble judge who changed Iowa courts
The Iowa legal community lost a fine lawyer, judge and dogged advocate for court reform with the death Monday of former Iowa Chief Justice W. Ward Reynoldson.
Although he rose from a small practice in Osceola to the top of Iowa’s court system, Reynoldso …
Instructing jurors on the use (or non-use) of media in the digital world
The ubiquitous presence of social media present new challenges in keeping jurors from seeing potentially prejudicial information during trials.
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National business groups are keeping a nervous eye on two Iowa egg company executives’ appeal to be heard Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St Paul. A federal trial judge in Sioux City last April sentenced the top two execut …Eighth Circuit to decide whether company executives can be jailed under a “responsible corporate officer” theory
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