King v. State: A lot to digest
Early Coverage of Education Ruling
Iowa Supreme Court Sharply Divided on Constitutional Challenge to the State’s Education System
By Ryan Koopmans
The Iowa Supreme Court today decided King et al. v. State of Io …
Iowa Federal Judge Listed As Potential Supreme Court Nominee in Romney Administration
By Ryan Koopmans
Today, Reuters reporter David Ingram asks: Who would President Romney nominate to the Supreme Court? Based on his conversations with lawyers in the know, Ingram ticks off ten possibilities, and that list includes Eighth Circui …
Eighth Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Iowa’s Judicial-Selection Method
By Ryan Koopmans
This morning the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Iowa’s method of electing members of the State Judicial Nominating Commission under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitu …
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Does Iowa’s public-intox law apply to your front steps?
By Ryan Koopmans
Tomorrow night in Decorah, the Iowa Supreme Court will hear competing arguments over whether Iowa’s public-intoxication statute applies to the front steps of a hou …
What does it mean when a justice concurs “in result only”?
By Ryan Koopmans
That’s the question that many lawyers and district court judges will be asking themselves after the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision today in
By Ryan Koopmans Tomorrow, the Iowa Supreme Court will hear argument in one of the most closely watched cases of the term: Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Iowa Board of Medicine. The case involves the Board of Medicine’s 2013 r … By Ryan Leemkuil This morning, the Iowa Supreme Court joined a number of courts around the country in rejecting constitutional challenges to a city’s use of traffic cameras (commonly referred to as “automated traffic enforcement,” or “ATE …Telemed abortion case could have broad implications
Traffic cameras are constitutional–at least if you don’t deny that you were driving
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