Just weeks before the University of Iowa was set to go to trial over a dispute with its private utilities operator — who sued the campus in 2023, just three years into a $1.165 billion 50-year contract — the two sides have reached a settlement.
Articles Tagged: Lawsuits
Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Business News Jun. 30, 2025 9:47 am124d ago
Lee Enterprises, which is headquartered in Iowa and owns five newspapers in the state, has agreed to pay subscribers and former subscribers $9.5 million for privacy violations.
Crime & Courts Jun. 16, 2025 9:48 am138d ago
An Iowa Supreme Court ruling will allow a lawsuit, filed the family of a Fayette County mother and daughter who drowned while tubing after going over a low-head dam near Clermont in June 2020, to go forward. The court overturned a district court dismissal of their petition in 2023.
Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
News Jun. 12, 2025 4:46 pm141d ago
Mexico Lindo Grill & Cantina has locations in West Branch, Iowa City, and North Liberty.
State Government Jun. 10, 2025 3:28 pm143d ago
The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa filed a complaint Tuesday with the Iowa Office of Civil Rights on behalf of The Satanic Temple Iowa over state officials’ denial of a 2024 winter display and celebration in the Capitol rotunda.
Crime & Courts Jun. 3, 2025 3:23 pm150d ago
The former owners of Adventureland Park reached a settlement with the parents of an 11-year-old boy who was killed in a water raft ride accident in 2021. Their 15-year-old son was also seriously injured, but survived.
Crime & Courts May. 23, 2025 2:52 pm161d ago
The Iowa Supreme Court will allow families of four Tyson Waterloo plant workers who died of COVID in 2020 to go forward with negligence suits against executives and supervisiors, but not against the company.
Maya Marchel Hoff, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
Health Care and Medicine May. 19, 2025 8:07 am166d ago
To resolve 2023 lawsuit, new services will be offered to children in the state with serious emotional and behavioral conditions.
Crime & Courts May. 12, 2025 2:48 pm172d ago
Winneshiek County Sheriff Dan Marx is asking a judge to dismiss an Iowa Attorney General Office’s petition against him for not cooperating with federal authorities to enforce immigration laws because his Facebook post that sparked the dispute has been removed -- so there’s no “ongoing violation.”.
State Government Apr. 25, 2025 7:04 pm189d ago
The suit, filed by Gov. Kim Reynolds and announced by her office Friday, aims to stop the release of several office communications to the Des Moines Register on the grounds of “executive privilege.”
Crime & Courts Apr. 23, 2025 6:33 pm191d ago
Linn County Board of Supervisors approved a settlement Wednesday in a sex harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by a former legal assistant against the county and initially against Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks. Maybanks and another prosecutor were dismissed from the suit before the settlement was approved.
Local Government Apr. 23, 2025 11:27 am192d ago
Timely construction of the proposed $275 million Cedar Crossing Casino facility is contingent on the case’s conclusion.A hearing is now set for May 7.
Brooklyn Draisey - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Higher Ed Apr. 18, 2025 7:45 am197d ago
How the video was cut, leaving out the e-cigarette and only showing Marc Muklewicz blowing out smoke, implied to some that he was using drugs during class, Muklewicz said.
By Lee Enterprises and the Associated Press
News Apr. 9, 2025 1:31 pm205d ago
A review by Lee Enterprises and The Associated Press found that Summit brought 232 lawsuits against landowners across South Dakota, North Dakota and Iowa – including lawsuits seeking access to property for surveys.
Clark Kauffman - Iowa Capital Dispatch
News Apr. 14, 2025 3:43 pm200d ago
According to the lawsuit, Joy’s child was diagnosed in March 2019 with a neurocognitive disability that required intensive medical care out of state.

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