By Ryan Koopmans Today’s Des Moines Register contains this editorial on last week’s decision in Broadlawns Medical Center v. Des Moines Register and Tribune Company. The Register–the winning party in the case–concludes that the Court got it right. Our earlier coverage of the decision is here.
By Ryan Koopmans Tony Leys and Jeff Eckhoff report on the Des Moines Register’s victory yesterday in Broadlawns Medical Center v. Des Moines Register and Tribune Company. (See our earlier coverage here.) The Muscatine Journal’s Mike Ferguson reports on a recent speech by Chief Justice…
By Ryan Koopmans Today’s Des Moines Register contains this editorial: “Supreme Court gets it right again: Lawmakers can fix the law if they don’t like ruling.”
Trial courts have a duty under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to assure that a criminal defendant who cannot afford to hire a lawyer is provided one at the State’s expense. To comply with that constitutional mandate, Iowa created the Office of State Public Defender (SPD) to employ attorneys to provide indigent defense or to contract with attorneys in private practice willing to take on those criminal cases.
Online video provider TikTok does business with millions of American users in all 50 states, including Iowans who have downloaded the company’s app hundreds of thousands of times and who agree to its terms of service. Still, the company argues, it should not have to defend itself against a lawsuit filed in state court by the Iowa Attorney General claiming the company misrepresents the nature of its content available to Iowa children.
A plaintiff suing former coworkers at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines for defamation waited too long to file suit in Polk County District Court because she failed to act on information she knew or should have known that could have formed the basis for a defamation claim before the statute of limitations expired, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a Jan. 9 decision.
Does a foreign corporation consent to the jurisdiction of Iowa’s courts when it registers with the Secretary of State to do business in this state, appoints an agent in Iowa for service of process, and is served with notice of a lawsuit through its Iowa…
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