The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear the Iowa Insurance Commissioner’s appeal of a 2020 Iowa Supreme Court decision that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts Iowa’s statute governing liquidation of a failed insurance company. The U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of...
A Sioux Falls, S.D., newspaper’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on its federal Freedom of Information Act request for grocery stores’ food stamp records resulted in a reversal for the newspaper and for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. And businesses...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that likely will decide whether a Sioux Falls, S.D., newspaper should have access to food-stamp spending at specific retail stores. Considerable...
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from an Iowa man who argued that his drunk-driving conviction was the product of an unconstitutional search and seizure. The Court on Monday issued a list of cases considered at the justices’ Nov. 30 conference, and no...
By Colin Smith Today, in a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a principal section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The case, Shelby County v. Holder, held that Section 4 of the Act was unconstitutional because it improperly subjected some states and...
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