By Ryan Koopmans
Today, the the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts announced that Chief Justice John Roberts has n …
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Eighth Circuit: School May Punish Students For Out-Of-School Internet Speech
[The following summary was written by Nyemaster Goode attorney Colin Smith]
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned a lower district court’s ruling that stated that a Missouri High School’s suspension and re-assignment of two students who created a derogatory blo …
En Banc Eighth Circuit Rules Against Funeral Protesters in Free Speech Case
[The following summary was written by Nyemaster Goode attorney Colin Smith]
Recently the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in its en banc rehearing of Phelps-Roper v. City of Manchester
Eighth Circuit Rules That Healthcare Challengers Lack Standing
[The following summary was written by Nyemaster Goode attorney Colin Smith]
In one of the latest cases to come down in the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), the Eighth Circuit Court of Appea …
Eighth Circuit to District Court: Don’t Be Cruel
By Ryan Koopmans
In a dispute over the ownership of a vast collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia, the Eighth Circuit this week reversed a summary judgment order granted by the District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on a claim for conv …
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Two assistant attorneys general subpoenaed, but only one must testify, Iowa Supreme Court holds
Two assistant Iowa attorneys general subpoenaed to testify by deposition in an employment suit against the State appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court after the trial court denied their motion to quash the subpoenas. The Supreme Court held that while one of the attorneys is shielded from testifying, the other is not.
Depart …
Iowa Supreme Court declines to overrule its precedent allowing multiple robbery charges when theft victims are also assaulted
In 2022 Brandon Lee entered the home of an elderly couple in Coggon, physically assaulted each of them with the aim of forcing them to reveal the location of cash, and left with $50,000 they had kept in a safe in the basement.
Lee was convicted by a Linn County jury for one count of theft and two counts of first-degree r …
Suit regarding ownership of Terrace Hill contents remanded to trial court by Iowa Supreme Court
The Iowa Supreme Court sent a case back to Polk County District Court for further proceedings on a suit brought by the Terrace Hill Society Foundation against the Terrace Hill Commission regarding which party controls the collection of artifacts in the Terrace Hill governor’s mansion.
The Terrace Hill Society Foundatio …
Thirty cases yet to be decided in Iowa Supreme Court’s term ending in June
The Iowa Supreme Court has 30 cases left to decide in the two months that remain in the Court’s 2023-24 term.
The case that has been on the undecided list the longest – State v. Bauler, which raised a question of whether a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated in a traffic stop – was argued N …
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