Opinions in four cases are expected to be released by the Iowa Supreme Court Friday, April 23. Following are On Brief’s previously published summaries of the cases. Go to On Brief’s Cases in the Pipeline page to read briefs filed with the Court in these appeal …
Bradley Brinkman wrote a Facebook post defending a friend whose plan to build a commercial dog kennel in Sloan, Iowa, came under attack from Richard Bauer, the manager of an apartment building next door.
In his post addressed to Bauer, Brinkman wrote:
“It is because of shit like this that I need to run for
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The Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments in seven cases April 14 and 15. Three other cases will be submitted to the Court without argument. Following are brief summaries of the April cases. Go to On Brief’s Cases in the Pipeline page to read briefs filed in th …
Opinions in four cases are expected to be released by the Iowa Supreme Court Friday, April 9. Following are On Brief’s previously published summaries of the cases. Go to On Brief’s Cases in the Pipeline page to read briefs filed with the Court in these appeals …
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear an oral argument Thursday in one case that had originally been scheduled to be argued at the Drake University Law School. The case will be argued in the Supreme Court Courtroom in the Judicial Branch Building, and livestreamed on the Court’s YouTube channel. Go to On Brief’s read more
[This article by Matthew A. McGuire, Spencer S. Cady, and Chris E. Slack was originally published in the August 2024 issue of The Iowa Lawyer magazine.]
The period between 2018 and 2022 was a period of great change for the Iowa Supreme Court, with five of the seven current justices joining the Court d …
When Daniel Snyder posted a comment on his employer’s intranet site expressing his opposition to the company’s use of a rainbow flag indicating support for LGBTQ+ equality, he believed he was sending the post to be seen only by the sender of an employee survey.
Instead, his post could be seen by all employees through …
The Iowa Supreme Court entered opinions in fifteen cases during June 2024. In addition to individual posts on six cases analyzed on this blog, the remaining opinions from June are summarized below.
The Iowa Court of Appeals selects certain opinions for publication in the Northwestern Reporter. On July 3, 2024, the Court of Appeals selected four opinions for publication. Following are summaries of those opinions.
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