By Ryan Koopmans
Today, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that Iowa law does not allow a person to control the final disposition of her remains. In a split decision, the Court held that Iowa’s Final Disposition Act, Chapter 144C, provides a compre …
[The following summary was written by Nyemaster Goode attorneys Amanda Atherton and Deb Hulett]
Today, the Iowa Supreme Court reaffirmed that an unfair termination decision does …
By Ryan Koopmans
On Friday, Justice Zager was the lone dissenter in Office of Citizens’ Aid/Ombudsman v. Edwards. …
By Ryan Koopmans
On Friday, Justice Wiggins departed from his six colleagues in two attorney-discipline cases. That’s news, mostly because it’s rare. According to Justice Wiggins, no justice has dissented in an attorney-discipline case in s …
In an opinion filed June 23, 2023, the Iowa Supreme Court held a plaintiff suing her employer’s landlord for exposure to toxic chemicals at work did not present sufficient evidence to create a material dispute of fact concerning whether th …
In 2017, Jena McCoy was hired as a sales representative for Thomas L Cardella & Associates’ call center in Ottumwa, Iowa. She alleged that within her first few weeks on the job, her supervisor, John Thompson, “began sitting next to her in her cubicle, touching her inappropriately and making sexually charged comments …
Six justices of the Iowa Supreme Court were deadlocked on a constitutional “takings” question in a case involving a plan by MidAmerican Energy to construct a power transmission line along a highway right-of-way that crosses a Madison County resident’s property.
MidAmerican applied for a franchise from the Iowa Util …
In a 3-3 decision, the Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a district court ruling refusing to dissolve a 2019 injunction against enforcement of a law known as the “fetal heartbeat law,” which would prohibit most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. Though the lack of a majority means that no written opinion carries th …
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