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Truckers must pursue workers’ compensation claims individually, not as a class, Iowa Supreme Court rules

Drivers who work for a national trucking company based in Des Moines do not have common claims for purposes of a class-action lawsuit on workers’ compensation benefits, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled March 20.

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Residential contractors must be licensed to represent homeowners with insurers

by Rox Laird | 2.18

Contracts written by residential contractors who act as unlicensed “public adjusters” representing homeowners’ with insurers following storm damage are invalid under Iowa law, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Feb. 14.

33 Carpenters Const …

Iowa Supreme Court restores sentence reduction in a ruling affecting 150 inmates

by Rox Laird | 10.19

The Iowa Supreme Court in its first decision of the term handed down Oct. 13 agreed with a convicted sex offender that his prison sentence was wrongly extended by more than three years by the Iowa Department of Corrections (IDOC).

The IDOC’s recent poli …

Iowa Supreme Court opens the courthouse doors to ‘wrongful birth’ lawsuits

by Rox Laird | 6.05

Pamela and Jeremy Plowmans’ appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court presented hard questions about the rights of parents to be informed about abnormalities of an unborn child that may lead them to choose an abortion.

The Court, carefully picking through this mor …

Justice Waterman: Beer-Can Connoisseur

by Ryan Koopmans | 7.20

By Ryan Koopmans

“In his professional life, Tom Waterman, 53, is a fourth-generation member of the storied Davenport law firm of Lane & Waterman, and a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court. In his personal life, he is a husband, father, fitnes …

Iowa Supreme Court declines to overrule its precedent allowing multiple robbery charges when theft victims are also assaulted

In 2022 Brandon Lee entered the home of an elderly couple in Coggon, physically assaulted each of them with the aim of forcing them to reveal the location of cash, and left with $50,000 they had kept in a safe in the basement.

Lee was convicted by a Linn County jury for one count of theft and two counts of first-degree r …

Suit regarding ownership of Terrace Hill contents remanded to trial court by Iowa Supreme Court

The Iowa Supreme Court sent a case back to Polk County District Court for further proceedings on a suit brought by the Terrace Hill Society Foundation against the Terrace Hill Commission regarding which party controls the collection of artifacts in the Terrace Hill governor’s mansion.

The Terrace Hill Society Foundatio …

Thirty cases yet to be decided in Iowa Supreme Court’s term ending in June

The Iowa Supreme Court has 30 cases left to decide in the two months that remain in the Court’s 2023-24 term.

The case that has been on the undecided list the longest – State v. Bauler, which raised a question of whether a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated in a traffic stop – was argued N …

Iowa Supreme Court sends question of State Auditor’s application of records law back to district court

The Iowa Supreme Court reversed in part a Polk County District Court ruling granting summary judgment in favor of State Auditor Rob Sand’s withholding release of communications related to the Auditor’s investigation of the governor’s office. The justices sent the case back to the trial court for further proceedings on …

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