ISBA annual meeting will feature presentations by the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
By Ryan Koopmans
On Thursday, June 18, the Iowa State Bar Association appellate practice committee will put on a morning CLE as part of the ISBA’s annual meeting. For anyone who practices before Iowa’s appellate courts–or for anyone who wants …
Recent shave moots Eighth Circuit beard appeal
By Ryan Leemkuil
The beard saga brewing in Arkansas prisons may have drawn to a close. As we mentioned a couple months ago, the latest beard case, read more
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 read more
Telemed abortion case could have broad implications
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 …
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Four Iowa Supreme Court opinions on State’s duty to protect nursing home residents from a convicted sex offender
The placement of a serial sex offender in a nursing home where he assaulted an elderly woman “cries out for a remedy,” Iowa Supreme Court Justice Thomas Waterman noted in an opinion concurring with the Court’s
Patient safety reports produced by hospital employees are off limits to discovery in legal proceedings, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday, because confidentiality encourages hospital staff to be comfortable in candidly reporting safety concerns. Dennis Wi … Muscatine High School was at bat in the fifth inning and Spencer Ludman was waiting in the dugout for his turn at bat when a foul ball rocketed off a Davenport Assumption player’s bat and struck Ludman in the head. He suffered a skull fracture, spent months recovering from brain injuries and … A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in February that Iowa State University violated the free speech rights of the campus chapter of the National As …Iowa Supreme Court: Patient safety reports are privileged under ‘morbidity and mortality’ statute
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