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Oral argument recap: Justices hear the case for and against prosecuting a child as an adult
Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court grappled in an oral argument Tuesday with the question of prosecuting a 13-year-old as an adult under Iowa’s youthful offender statute.
Noah Crooks, who was convicted of killing his mother when he was 13, was waived by a …
Iowa Supreme Court urged to ban criminal prosecution of 13-year-olds in adult court
The Iowa Supreme Court is being asked to take another step toward protecting juvenile offenders from prison sentences designed for adults in an appeal set for argument Tuesday.
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Iowa Supreme Court asked: Is it possible to say the road not taken would have led to better place?
A southeast Iowa woman is asking the Iowa Supreme Court to overturn its 2010 decision that she says imposes an impossible burden on workers’ compensation claimants: proving that the outcome of the medical procedure they chose is better than a hypothetical alternative.
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Is an employee covered by a collective-bargaining agreement entitled to an exception to the ‘at-will’ employment doctrine?
Iowa Supreme Court upholds a will to resolve a legal dispute over a family farm
In the words of her attorney, Margaret Workman was “obsessed” with estate planning regarding the fate of the family’s 200-acre farm, creating and amending wills no fewer than 10 times.
Margaret, who died at the age of 89 in 2012, may rest in peace: He …
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Iowa Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments in five cases Feb. 12 and 13
The Iowa Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in five cases Feb. 12 and 13, and four other cases will be submitted to the Court without oral argument. Go to On Brief’s Cases in the Pipeline
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear oral argument Feb. 5 in an interlocutory appeal in a civil suit brought by a Cedar Rapids man who was shot by a Cedar Rapids police officer during a 2016 traffic stop, which left him paralyzed from the neck down. Oral argume … The Iowa Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in eight cases Jan. 23 and 24. Four other cases will be submitted to the Court without oral argument. Among the cases set for argument is an appeal by two transgender women challenging a decision by … The nine-member Iowa Court of Appeals elected Judge Gayle Nelson Vogel chief judge, replacing Chief Judge David Danilson, who retired Jan. 4. Vogel, of Spirit Lake, has served on the Court of Appeals since 1996. She becomes the ninth chief judge since the I …Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments in a police-shooting case in an evening session Feb. 5
Iowa Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments in eight cases Jan. 23 and 24
Judge Vogel elected Iowa Court of Appeals chief judge
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