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The state of Iowa will have to pay about $2 million in damages to a state employees’ union following an Iowa Supreme Court ruling Friday finding that it failed to honor a contract requirement ...
The Court noted that Iowa has a long history of progressive thought on civil rights. Seventeen years before the Dred Scott decision, the Iowa Supreme Court "refused to treat a human being as property to enforce a contract for slavery and held our laws must extend equal protection to persons of all races and conditions."
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Iowa since a decision of the Iowa Supreme Court on April 3, 2009. Marriage licenses became available to same-sex couples on April 27. [1] This ruling was the result of a lawsuit filed in 2005 by six same-sex couples who had been denied marriage licenses in Polk County.
The Iowa Supreme Court has finally answered, at least for now, the most important question about Iowans' abortion rights. After three rulings in as many years, the seven justices on the court ...
The Court is the "court of last resort" or the highest court in the Iowa state court system. Its opinions are binding on all other Iowa state courts. The Iowa Supreme Court has the sole power to admit persons to practice as attorneys in the courts of Iowa, to prescribe rules to supervise attorney conduct, and to discipline attorneys.
The Iowa Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s decision that Summit Carbon Solutions is allowed temporary access to properties for surveying because it is a pipeline company that would be ...
Friday's ruling on whether Iowa's 6-week abortion ban can go into effect follows a 3-3 deadlock in 2023. Iowa now allows abortion at up to 20 weeks. Iowa Supreme Court to rule Friday on 6-week ...
A divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Friday to remove an injunction blocking enforcement of Iowa's "fetal heartbeat" abortion law, and to remove legal barriers for future abortion restrictions.