National business groups are keeping a nervous eye on two Iowa egg company executives’ appeal to be heard Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St Paul. A federal trial judge in Sioux City last April sentenced the top two executives…
By Ryan Leemkuil Today, the Eighth Circuit ruled that a district court goes too far when it attempts to limit a defendant’s ability to procreate. Christopher Harris, a convicted felon, fathered ten children out of wedlock with seven different women. After Harris was caught…
By Ryan Leemkuil Last month, the Eighth Circuit rejected Arkansas inmate Christopher Deaton’s request to grow a full-length beard for religious reasons. As we noted then, Judge Colloton dissented, arguing that the panel should wait for the Supreme Court’s decision in Holt v. Hobbs, another…
By Ryan Koopmans That was the main question yesterday in Deaton v. Arkansas Department of Correction. Arkansas prisoner Christopher Deaton wants to grow a full-length beard for religious reasons, but prison policy doesn’t allow it because of safety concerns. Deaton sued under the Religious Land Use…
By Ryan Leemkuil This morning, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review two cases from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. In Holt v. Hobbs, the Court will consider the legality of the Arkansas Department of Corrections’ no-beard growing policy. Gregory Holt (a/k/a Abdul…
Although renters may not want landlords entering their homes without good reason, landlords are allowed by law to reasonably enter rental properties for such things as making repairs and showing apartments to prospective renters. The question is when do reasonable entries become unreasonable? For Alex…
Does the Polk District Court have jurisdiction to hear the State’s lawsuit against the TikTok social media platform claiming the company violates Iowa’s Consumer Fraud Act by misrepresenting the nature of content accessible to underage users? That is the question in State of Iowa v….
A video of a video may be introduced as evidence in a criminal trial provided there is proper foundation that the evidence is what it is said to be, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a decision handed down Oct. 3.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order Oct. 6 denying an Iowa woman’s petition for certiorari seeking to overturn her drug possession conviction in Madison County District Court, arguing that a police search of her vehicle based on a drug-detection dog’s sniff through an open…
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