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Eighth Circuit to Decide Whether Iowa’s Campaign-Finance Laws Survive Constitutional Scrutiny
By Colin Smith
Just in time for what is sure to be the craziest Iowa election cycle in a generationread more
Attorney General Miller Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Strike Down Prop 8 and DOMA
By Ryan Koopmans
Yesterday, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Holli …
Bury Me in Satin, Pretty Please
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 …
Two appellate-jurisdiction issues; two circuit splits. Next year’s moot-court competition?
By Ryan Koopmans
Yesterday, the Eighth Circuit decided Ruppert v. Principal Life Insurance Company read more
Beneficiaries of Revocable Trusts Have No Right to Accounting of Trust Activities Prior to Settlor’s Death
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Get back in here! U.S. Supreme Court rejects Eighth Circuit’s “no recalling a jury” rule.
By Ryan Leemkuil
This blog has previously covered the long-running dispute between former Iowa law school dean Carolyn Jones and Teresa Wagner, a former law school employee who claims she was passed over for a job due to political bias. Most rece …
Court guts unemployment rule on jailed workers
You can be fired for missing work because you are in jail, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you will be denied unemployment insurance benefits.
That’s according to the Iowa Supreme Court in a 4-3 ruling that gutted an Iowa administrative rule applied t …
Des Moines Water Works lawsuit is teed up for the Iowa Supreme Court’s next term
The Des Moines Water Works lawsuit against 10 agricultural drainage districts in three northern Iowa counties will not be tried in federal court in Sioux City for more than a year. But the nature of the lawsuit could be substantially altered by the Iowa Supreme Court as early as this fall. …
Iowa trucking company gets unanimous U.S. Supreme Court victory
A sexual harassment lawsuit against Cedar Rapids trucking company CRST that has bounced around the federal courts for more than a decade took yet another bounce at the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday.
The history of this case is so contorted that the Supreme Co …
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