Eighth Circuit to District Court: Don’t Be Cruel
By Ryan Koopmans
In a dispute over the ownership of a vast collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia, the Eighth Circuit this week reversed a summary judgment order granted by the District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on a claim for conv …
Supreme Court: Tax Credit Film Budgets Not Confidential
[The following summary was written by Ryan Stefani, a law clerk in Nyemaster Goode’s summer program.]
On July 27, 2012, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that filmmakers who received tax credits from the state must disclose their final budget summar …
Iowa Supreme Court Strips Live Nude Dancing Theaters of Regulation by Local Ordinances
8th Circuit: South Dakota Can Require Doctors to Warn Abortion-Seekers of Increased Suicide Risk
By Ryan Koopmans
In an en banc opinion released this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the portion of a 2005 South Dakota law that requires doctors to warn women that having an abortion could result in an increased ris …
Radio Iowa Interview on Iowa Supreme Court Term
Over the weekend, Radio Iowa played the following interview with On Brief contributor Ryan Koopmans: “Review shows some trends in Iowa Supreme Court rulings.” …
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Could an Iowan soon sit on the nation’s highest court?
By Ryan Koopmans
I join the the legal community and the country in mourning the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia. I applied to law school because I thought it’d help me get a job as a Wall Street banker; I decided to become a lawyer, in large part, because of Justice Scalia. …
Rox Laird, veteran Iowa courts commentator, joins On Brief
By Ryan Koopmans
Rox Laird, former Des Moines Register editorial writer and Iowa courts commentator, is joining this blog as a regular contributor. Rox retired from the Register last fall and, as former Register editor and NBC News president M …
Iowa Supreme Court to hold evening argument in case involving the death of a rock star and the constitutional rights of the unborn
Tomorrow, the Iowa Supreme Court will hold a special, evening session to hear oral arguments in The Estate of Paul Gray v. Daniel Baldi. The Iowa Supreme Court holds one evening session in Des Moines each year, and this one, in particular, is made for prime time: The lawsuit is about …
Iowa Supreme Court extends argument time in major voting case and says amici can argue–if the parties let them
By Ryan Koopmans
As the Associated Press reported yesterday, th …
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