Articles Tagged: U.S. District Court

A third lawsuit has been filed against Iowa’s insurance commissioner over the legality of a new state law regulating pharmacy benefit managers.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to follow due process and provide bond hearings for two individuals being detained in Iowa county jails by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

More than a year after he was fired from his post as executive director to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, Guillermo Morales has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in the U.S. District Court.

A federal judge has granted Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking enforcement of parts of Iowa’s new pharmacy benefit manager reform law.

A federal courtroom in Davenport overflowed Monday afternoon as community members gathered to show support of Jorge Gonzalez Ochoa, a Colombian immigrant who was publicly arrested last month by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Iowa City.

Nebraska man pleaded to causing a Detroit bound flight to be diverted to Cedar Rapids when he tried to open a SkyWest plane’s exit door and then became combative with the flight crew and passengers.

An Iowa State University student is accused of cyberstalking and soliciting others online to “rape and stalk” UI students, other women and teens. He faces three federal charges and will remain in jail pending trial.

An Iowa City man was sentenced this week to nine years in federal prison. The charges stem from a 2024 search of his Iowa City residence that found methamphetamine, crack and marijuana, as well as cash and a handgun.

The judge’s order on Iowa’s new pharmacy benefit managers regulations, which partially halts its implementation, applies only to plaintiff businesses, their workers and health care agents.

The Department of Homeland Security should have raised its arguments sooner, according to a federal judge who in May granted a preliminary injunction the government now is fighting that prevents it from terminating the immigration status of four University of Iowa international students.

A federal judge on Friday appeared to indicate she plans to grant a preliminary injunction against at least parts of the new law, which was designed to help small pharmacies and address prescription drug costs

A federal judge granted a 2-week pause while a lawsuit is considered over a new state law that addresses pharmacy benefit managers, rural pharmacies and prescription drug costs

An Oxford man was sentenced to 13 years for soliciting a girl he believed was 15-years-old for sex and receiving child pornography. An undercover officer was posing as a minor online and nabbed the man when he showed up to meet the girl for sex.

A professional hunter is suing a state Department of Natural Resources officer whose alleged false claims damaged his business and reputation.

An Iowa City man was sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison for distributing and receiving child porn. He electronic devices contained “hundreds” of images, including children under age 1.