More than two years after a retired Iowa State University agronomy professor sued her former employer, the Board of Regents, and state for wage and gender discrimination, the Iowa Supreme Court has retained her appeal of a lower court’s August ruling limiting her ability to recover lost wages.
The legal path to Friday’s state Supreme Court ruling started in 2017.
Abortions in Iowa would be illegal once cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo or fetus after the Iowa Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for a 2023 state law to take effect.
While abortion rights supporters raised concerns, abortion opponents praised the ruling and the new restrictions on abortion that have come in its wake.
The Iowa Supreme Court last week backed a jury’s $4.75 million award to a northeast Iowa dairy that for years suffered from stray electrical current in the ground from a nearby natural gas pipeline.
Iowa’s Supreme Court is set to issue its decision Friday on whether or not to allow a strict abortion restriction to take effect, potentially delivering a dramatic shake-up to Iowa’s abortion laws.
Also, Iowa Supreme Court awards grants for low-income legal services
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Auditor Rob Sand’s office withheld nine emails between his off and two journalists, citing an open records law exemption for records that are part of an audit. The Iowa Supreme Court disagreed with that characterization and said Sand’s office must provide more evidence to justify withholding the emails from the conservative organization seeking their release.
Justice said recusal ‘based upon a personal relationship’ that happened ‘more than a decade ago.’
Arguments focus on which legal standard to apply
Rules meant to carry out a blocked Iowa law banning abortions early in pregnancy will move forward, while later this week the Iowa Supreme Court will consider a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the state ban.
The Iowa Supreme Court pieced together so-called legislative immunity from multiple places in the Iowa Constitution, and ruled it extends to communications with third parties
Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen will continue to talk about pay increases for judges until something changes and is encouraging Iowa judges to talk to their local lawmakers to make the case for a 6.2 percent increase. Gov. Kim Reynolds has proposed 2 percent.
A Palo woman who is a certified voice writer is the first in the state and in the 6th district following the Iowa Supreme Court’s order that allows voice writers as court reporters. Court officials hope it will reduce the critical shortage. Voice writing is just another option which may come easier to some than typing on a steno machine.
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