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Eighth Circuit Upholds Minnesota’s Code of Judicial Conduct Against First Amendment Challenge
By Ryan Koopmans
Today the Eighth Circuit, sitting en banc, upheld three provisions of Minnesota’s Code of Judicial Conduct against a First Amendment challenge brought by a candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Court. The full court reversed a …
Register Editorial: “Court Rightly Sees Need For Openness”
Iowa Right to Life Appeals Campaign Finance Decision
By Ryan Koopmans
Iowa Right to Life is taking its case to the Eighth Circuit. Last year the organization challenged the constitutionality of Iowa’s new campaign finance in federal court in Des Moines. Chief Judge Robert Pratt dismissed the case l …
Press Roundup
By Ryan Koopmans
Tony Leys and Jeff Eckhoff report on the Des Moines Register’s victory yesterday in read more
Iowa Supreme Court Holds Third Party Records That Relate to an Investigation By a Licensing Board May Be Subject to Disclosure Under the Iowa Open Records Act
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The case of the fainting juror and the doctor who did not tend to her
By Ryan Koopmans
Two doctors are sued for separate acts of alleged negligence against the same patient. During trial, a juror faints and one of the doctors tends to her. Assuming that’s cause for a mistrial in the case against the juror-trea …
Beard Update
By Ryan Leemkuil
Last month, the Eighth Circuit rejected Arkansas inmate Christopher Deaton’s request to grow a full-length beard for religious reasons. As we not …
State of the Judiciary
By Ryan Koopmans
At 10:00 this morning, Chief Justice Mark Cady will give the annual State of the Judiciary address. According to the Judicial Branch press release, the Chief “will report on progress in the past year toward making the Iowa Judic …
When should an inferior court just sit tight?
By Ryan Koopmans
That was the main question yesterday in Deaton v. Arkansas Department of Correction. Arkansas prisoner Christopher Deaton wants to grow a full-length …
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