Eighth Circuit to honor the late Judge George G. Fagg
By Ryan Koopmans
The Eighth Circuit announced today that it will hold a special session to honor the late Judge George G. Fagg on March 4, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. at the United States Courthouse in Des Moines. The public is invited to attend. …
When is a court order electronically filed?
By Ryan Koopmans
*Disclaimer: This is boring stuff if you’re not a lawyer. If you’re a lawyer, it’s still boring but really important
Today, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a court order is “f …
Iowa Supreme Court takes up unemployment case involving jailed employee
Have you in effect quit your job if you spend nearly a month in jail on charges that are later dismissed?
That’s the question that the Iowa Supreme Court will face when it it convenes for oral arguments on Thursday. The answer could reverse 40 years o …
Police can’t detain a car’s occupants simply because there was “movement inside the vehicle with moisture on the windows.”
By Ryan Koopmans
Oskaloosa, Saturday, December 14. The time? 1:45 a.m. Closing time.
Officer Blaine Shutts is on patrol. The location? V.F.W. Post #2237. Shutts sees two cars in a nearby lot with li …
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide Friday whether to (indirectly) review the Iowa Supreme Court’s telemed abortion decision
By Ryan Koopmans
When the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court meet for conference this Friday, an Iowa Supreme Court case will be on their agenda (kind of).
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Iowa Supreme Court opens the courthouse doors to ‘wrongful birth’ lawsuits
Pamela and Jeremy Plowmans’ appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court presented hard questions about the rights of parents to be informed about abnormalities of an unborn child that may lead them to choose an abortion.
The Court, carefully picking through this mor …
2016-17 Iowa Supreme Court status report: 96 down; 21 to go
Tomorrow the Iowa Supreme Court is expected to hand down two decisions, which will bring to 96 the number of cases disposed of in the first nine months of the 2016-17 term.
After the release of tomorrow’s decisions, 21 submitted cases will remain to be …
Iowa Supreme Court draws a line in two juvenile sentencing cases
When the Iowa Supreme Court began applying the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent juvenile sentencing decisions to Iowa cases, criminal offenders convicted as juveniles saw an opportunity to raise increasingly novel arguments.
Although the Court has agreed with …
Iowa Supreme Court reverses itself in speedy indictment cases
A divided Iowa Supreme Court Thursday reversed its 37-year-old precedent on when an “arrest” occurs for purposes of the state’s speedy indictment rule.
In the case before the Court,
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