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The Code of Iowa contains the statutory laws of the U.S. state of Iowa. The Iowa Legislative Service Bureau is a non-partisan governmental agency that organizes, updates, and publishes the Iowa Code. It is republished in full every odd year, and is supplemented in even years.
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 .
April 3 - Iowa legalizes same-sex marriage and becomes the third state to do so. [1] September 27 - Pappajohn Sculpture Park opens in Des Moines. [2] December 31 - The Iowa State Cyclones football team defeated the Minnesota Golden Gophers, winning the Insight Bowl. [3]
Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks to the press after signing House File 2416 into law, prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports offered by Iowa schools, colleges and ...
The list of 374 books is meant to provide guidance about those that might violate and Iowa law banning sex acts in school books. Iowa school district flags 374 books as potentially banned, from ...
In 1914, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Iowa overturned this law as unconstitutional. The state appealed, and in 1917, in Davis v. Berry et al., the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the lower court ruling. 49 people were sterilized under the law. In 1929, however, the state enacted a new sterilization law.
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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.