Two assistant Iowa attorneys general subpoenaed to testify by deposition in an employment suit against the State appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court after the trial court denied their motion to quash the subpoenas. The Supreme Court held that while
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Iowa Supreme Court declines to overrule its precedent allowing multiple robbery charges when theft victims are also assaulted
By Rox Laird
In 2022 Brandon Lee entered the home of an elderly couple in Coggon, physically assaulted each of them with the aim of forcing them to reveal the location of cash, and left with $50,000 they had kept in a safe…
Suit regarding ownership of Terrace Hill contents remanded to trial court by Iowa Supreme Court
By Rox Laird
The Iowa Supreme Court sent a case back to Polk County District Court for further proceedings on a suit brought by the Terrace Hill Society Foundation against the Terrace Hill Commission regarding which party controls the collection of artifacts in…
Thirty cases yet to be decided in Iowa Supreme Court’s term ending in June
By Rox Laird
The Iowa Supreme Court has 30 cases left to decide in the two months that remain in the Court’s 2023-24 term.
The case that has been on the undecided list the longest – State v. Bauler, which raised a question…
Iowa Supreme Court sends question of State Auditor’s application of records law back to district court
By Rox Laird
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed in part a Polk County District Court ruling granting summary judgment in favor of State Auditor Rob Sand’s withholding release of communications related to the Auditor’s investigation of the governor’s office. The justices sent the…
Indecent exposure before two witnesses is two crimes, not one, Iowa Supreme Court holds
By Rox Laird
If two persons simultaneously witness another person masturbating in violation of Iowa’s indecent exposure statute, has that person committed two separate crimes or one crime under Iowa law?
According to the defendant who was convicted by a Story County jury…
State worker failed to prove boss created a hostile work environment, Iowa Supreme Court holds
By Rox Laird
The Iowa Supreme Court remanded a $790,000 jury award for a state employee’s hostile-work environment claim to Polk County District Court for entry of a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, which erases the damage award. The Court held that the plaintiff…
Iowa Supreme Court to hear arguments April 11 on constitutionality of Iowa’s fetal cardiac activity abortion statute
By Rox Laird
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear its final oral argument of the 2023-24 term Thursday. The Court saved the term’s most-watched case for last: an appeal addressing whether Iowa’s law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy may be…
Iowa Supreme Court to hear arguments in eight cases Apr. 10-11
By Rox Laird
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments in eight cases April 10 and 11. Four other cases will be submitted to the Court without oral argument. Go to On Brief’s “Cases in the Pipeline” page to read briefs…
February 2024 Opinion Roundup
By Matt McGuire
The Iowa Supreme Court entered opinions in eighteen cases during February 2024. You can read Rox Laird’s analysis of Singh v. McDermott, Selden v. DMACC, and Senator Roby Smith et al. v. Iowa District Court for Polk County…