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Iowa DPH, a state court ordered the Iowa Department of Public Health to list the names of two women, a married lesbian couple, on the death certificate of their stillborn son. [18] The Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments that same day in the department's appeal of a decision in Gartner v. Newton that ordered it to enter the names of two women as ...
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.
Varnum v. Brien, 763 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa 2009), [1] was an Iowa Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that the state's limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples violated the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. The case had the effect of legally recognizing same-sex marriage in Iowa.
Later cases focused on Section 3's definition of marriage. The courts, using different standards, have all found Section 3 unconstitutional. Requests for the Supreme Court to hear appeals were filed in five cases, listed below (with Supreme Court docket numbers): Gill v. Office of Personnel Management (12-13 as BLAG v. Gill) Massachusetts v.
A bawdy office atmosphere among state social workers is not enough to support a nearly $800,000 jury verdict for sexual harassment, the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled.. The court's decision Friday ...
In coming to its conclusion, the Court defined what constituted the bed and bank of a river. [4] [5] The case has had international repercussions as well. The Supreme Court's definition was adopted by courts in the United Kingdom in the case Hindson v. Ashby (1896) 65 LJ Ch. 515, 2 Ch. 27. [5]
Nor should the court adopt the undue burden test, the state argues, citing prior opinions from both the Iowa and U.S. supreme courts describing that standard as "completely unreasoned ...
Iowa law does not set a minimum age at which children can be left home alone, and in Cole's case, the court questioned whether the children would have been safer going to the store with her.