The Iowa Supreme Court entered opinions in six cases during January 2024. You can read Rox Laird’s analysis of In re Detention of Schuman and Chicoine v. Wellmark, Inc. The remaining opinions from January are summarized below.
Lorri Hagen vs. Serta/National Bedding Co. LLC and Safety National Casualty Co., No. 22–0684
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Iowa Constitution can protect legislators from subpoenas, Iowa Supreme Court holds
Iowa legislators are shielded by the Iowa Constitution from being forced to produce communications with third parties in a civil proceeding related to the passage of legislation, the Iowa Supreme Court held for the first time in a decision handed down Feb. 23.
Based on that holding, the Court quashed subpoenas served by the League…
NC Supreme Court Fills Its 2023-24 Calendar
If you have a case pending before the North Carolina Supreme Court and haven’t yet received an oral argument notice, your case likely won’t be argued until the fall.
The North Carolina Supreme Court does not have an established formula for when it hears arguments. In past years, the Court has often held the first…
NYT: The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law
Jesse Wegman has an editorial in The New York Times about the challenges of teaching constitutional law in the current environment. This should give you a flavor of the proceedings:
Under the pretense of practicing so-called originalism, which claims to interpret the Constitution in line with how it was understood at the nation’s founding, these…
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (February 19 – February 23)
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of February 19, 2024.
Continue ReadingIn Shannon v Hrabovsky, a successful will-challenge case, the Court confirmed that the two-year limitation period…
Words I’m Afraid to Say at Oral Argument
I am an introvert and a try-hard. This makes me a lot of fun at parties. (Just kidding I never get invited to parties.) It also means that I encounter most of the words I see in print as opposed to real life. So I’m not always 100% sure about how they are supposed to…
Iowa Court of Appeals February 2024 Published Opinion Roundup
The Iowa Court of Appeals selects certain opinions for publication within the North Western Reporter. On February 9, 2024, the Court of Appeals selected three opinions for publication, summarized below:
State of Iowa v. Rickie Matrese Perkins, No. 22-1224
Opinion Date: October 11, 2023
On appeal from Iowa District Court for Black Hawk…
Deputy’s misstatements in warrant application were not intentionally false, Iowa Supreme Court rules
A divided Iowa Supreme Court held that evidence procured via a warrant should not have been suppressed by a trial judge because any false statements by a deputy sheriff in support of the warrant were not intentionally made with reckless disregard for the truth.
Jesse Harbach was charged with driving while intoxicated after the truck…
Procedure, Not Politics
Amid the intense coverage of the Colorado ballot exclusion case that was the subject of oral argument before the Supreme Court earlier this month, the Law Court’s decision in Trump v. Secretary of State on a parallel appeal of the Maine Secretary of State’s decision to bar Donald Trump from the ballot has garnered comparatively…
Iowa Supreme Court to hear arguments in 11 cases Feb. 19-21
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments in 11 cases Feb. 19-21. Go to On Brief’s “Cases in the Pipeline” page to read briefs filed in these cases. Following are brief summaries of the February cases.
State v. Starr
Scheduled for oral argument Feb. 19, 7 p.m.
Question: Does a state…