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Justice Wiggins Authors Rare Dissent in Attorney-Discipline Case
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 …
Senator Harkin Recommends Two for Eighth Circuit Vacancy
By Ryan Koopmans
Yesterday, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin forwarded two names to President Obama to fill a vacancy being left by Eighth Circuit Judge Michael Melloy, who will take senior status on January 30. Making the cut: Jane Kelly, a federal pu …
Until Pay-On-Death Do Us Part
By Ryan Koopmans
Today the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a surviving husband who elects against his wife’s will is not entitled to any portion of her pay-on-death (POD) assets that pass outside of probate. The case, Estate of Myers, …
Chief Justice Appoints Judge Colloton as Chair of Appellate Rules Committee
Eighth Circuit: School May Punish Students For Out-Of-School Internet Speech
[The following summary was written by Nyemaster Goode attorney Colin Smith]
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned a lower district court’s ruling that stated that a Missouri High School’s suspension and re-assignment of two students who created a derogatory blo …
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Instructing jurors on the use (or non-use) of media in the digital world
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National business groups are keeping a nervous eye on two Iowa egg company executives’ appeal to be heard Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St Paul. A federal trial judge in Sioux City last April sentenced the top two execut … By Ryan Koopmans The Iowa Supreme Court ruled today that a Linn County court w … When should “hearsay testimony” of a medical professional identifying an alleged perpetrator be admitted in a domestic-assault prosecution? Only when the testimony is relevant to a medical procedure, a divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday. The decisi …Eighth Circuit to decide whether company executives can be jailed under a “responsible corporate officer” theory
Biological parents in 1965 adoption still secret, says Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa Supreme Court splits on when hearsay is admissible in domestic abuse cases
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