By Ryan Koopmans
In an en banc opinion released this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the portion of a 2005 South Dakota law that requires doctors to warn women that having an abortion could result in an increased ris …
[The following summary was written by Spencer Cady, a law clerk in Nyemaster Goode’s summer program. Spencer attends Drake University Law School and serves as an articles editor of the Drake Law Review.]
On May 21, 2012, the …
By Ryan Koopmans
This morning the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Iowa’s method of electing members of the State Judicial Nominating Commission under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitu …
By Ryan Koopmans
Today the Eighth Circuit, sitting en banc, upheld three provisions of Minnesota’s Code of Judicial Conduct against a First Amendment challenge brought by a candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Court. The full court reversed a …
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments in four cases Jan. 23. Three other cases will be submitted to the Court without oral argument. Go to On Brief’s “Cases in the Pipeline” page to read briefs filed in these cases.
The Iowa Legislature in 1995 enacted health care insurance reforms aimed at improving individual access to health insurance. Among other things, the legislation created the Iowa Individual Health Benefit Reinsurance Association, a private nonprofit corporation.
Individual health insurance providers are required by the st …
Iowa law requires that a party bringing a malpractice action against a health care provider provide defendants with an expert witness affidavit regarding the alleged breach of the applicable medical standard of care, referred to as a “certificate of merit”. In three decisions handed down Dec. 22, the Iowa Supreme Court …
In 2021 Des Moines lawyer Marc Harding was considering bringing a medical malpractice action in Iowa and sent records related to the case to an Indiana surgeon to review. Harding ultimately decided against bringing the malpractice suit but instead sued the Indiana doctor over a consulting-fee dispute.
That dispute led to …
On Brief: Iowa’s Appellate Blog is devoted to appellate litigation with a focus on the Iowa Supreme Court, the Iowa Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
