By Ryan Koopmans
Iowa Right to Life is taking its case to the Eighth Circuit. Last year the organization challenged the constitutionality of Iowa’s new campaign finance in federal court in Des Moines. Chief Judge Robert Pratt dismissed the case l …
By Ryan Koopmans
Today the Eighth Circuit reinstated a political discrimination lawsuit against Carolyn Jones, the former dean of the Univ …
By Ryan Koopmans
The Eighth Circuit announced yesterday that the en banc court (all eleven active judges) will again consider South Dakota’s 2005 law on informed consent of abortion. The full court considered portions of the law in 2008, v …
Was it enough for a truck driver who struck a cow on the interstate, seeking to prove the cow’s owner was negligent, to rely upon the very fact that the cow had been allowed to wander onto the highway in the first place?
Not without more, the Iowa Supreme Court said in a
The Iowa Supreme Court entered opinions in fourteen cases during December 2023. You can read Rox Laird’s analysis of State v. Geddes, State v. Arrieta, Harding v. Sasso, and Hummel v. Smith and Hilts v. Smith. The remaining opinions from December are summarized below. Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) paid a female employee less than a male employee in a comparable position, but the pay differential did not amount to illegal discrimination, according to a Feb. 2 opinion by the Iowa Supreme Court. Sandra Selden, an Application Support Analyst 2 in the DMACC information technolo … The Polk County District Court did not exceed its authority in denying class action status to a group of Iowa chiropractors suing Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield for alleged unlawful price fixing, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a Jan. 26 ruling.December 2023 Opinion Roundup
Iowa Supreme Court reverses jury verdict in DMACC pay discrimination case
Iowa Supreme Court: No class action status for chiropractors in antitrust suit against Wellmark
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