Articles Tagged: Iowa Supreme Court

Vice president urges push to elect Democrats

Lawyers and freelance court reporters doubt court’s order to allow freelance court reporters to work civil trials will help crisis level shortage. They also see it as adding more expense for the plaintiffs and freelancers would take a pay cut.

Gov. Kim Reynolds is asking the state Supreme Court to override a lower court’s ruling and allow a new law to go into effect.

Last week, I opined that the special session called to pass a new “heartbeat” bill, legislation to restrict abortion after …

Instead, the Iowa Supreme Court should have let the 2018 fetal heartbeat law go into effect

The governor’s office agreed to allow a state District Court to resolve any future open records disputes with three plaintiffs that may arise over the next year.

At the beginning of the month, I was at a CNN presidential town hall featuring former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley …

While an Iowa Supreme Court decision this month means abortion remains legal in Iowa until roughly 20 weeks of pregnancy, lawmakers and activists on both sides of the issue are gearing up for another protracted battle.

Former official alleges she was fired as the communications director for the Iowa Department of Public Health for fulfilling records requests from journalists.

DES MOINES — An anti-abortion leader is calling for the resignation or removal of three Iowa Supreme Court justices who voted against

‘We live to fight another day,’ state senator says

A 3-3 decision by the Iowa Supreme Court on a so-called fetal heartbeat bill means abortion remains legal in Iowa, for now, until the 20th week of pregnancy. The ruling throws the issue back to state lawmakers.

Gov. Kim Reynolds seeking to reinstate 2018 law that would ban abortions once fetal heartbeat detected

The Iowa Supreme Court says a former Division of Criminal Investigation agent who alleged he was fired in 2013 for being a whistleblower can’t retroactively seek extra civil damages.

Joshua Venckus alleged the case was pursued against him although he had what he described as an airtight alibi.