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Two who sued a hog farm over its smell and flies must pay the other side's legal fees
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – Two Iowa residents who unsuccessfully sued a hog farm for nuisance are now on the hook for the defendant's legal fees, the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled. -
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Urgent care clinic wins malpractice appeal over flesh-eating disease
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - An urgent care clinic won its appeal of a medical malpractice lawsuit it initially lost to a couple complaining of an alleged misdiagnosis that resulted in unnecessary amputation. -
Iowa Supreme Court reinstates dram shop lawsuit despite plaintiff using wrong name
DES MOINES, Iowa – A dramshop action filed by a man allegedly injured at a bar in late 2015 is back in a Polk County court after a split Iowa Supreme Court ruled the man had given enough notice that he intended to sue. -
Claims in wrongful termination lawsuit fail after employee is reinstated
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – Common-law claims for being wrongfully fired after refusing to take a drug and alcohol test as required by state law won't fly in Iowa, the state's Supreme Court ruled last month. -
Iowa court rules on case of collision featuring motorcycle and tractor
DES MOINES (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Iowa vacated an appeals court’s decision that denied the plaintiff’s motion for mistrial and granted her motion for a new trial solely against another defendant in a case over a collision between a motorcycle and a tractor. -
Iowa SC beats back union challenge to new law regarding dues
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – The Iowa Supreme Court recently affirmed a county court’s summary judgment in favor of the state Legislature in response to claims from two Iowa labor unions that several 2017 amendments to the state's Public Employment Relations Act violated the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. -
Iowa Supreme Court reverses ruling in property owners' case against animal feeding production operators
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a summary judgment in a case filed by property owners against animal feeding production operators they allege have damaged their property and quality of life. -
Railroads avoid $6B Iowa class action over 2008 flood
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a district court ruling that prohibits a group of property owners from suing railways for damages related to a 2008 Iowa flood. -
Iowa SC affirms public-duty doctrine bars county from liability in auto accident case; Dissent calls it 'confusing'
DES MOINES (Legal Newsline) – The Iowa Supreme Court upheld a district court ruling that the public-duty doctrine barred Humboldt County from liability for the injuries a passenger suffered when a car crashed into a concrete embankment put up by the landowner. -
John Deere wins case filed by fired manager; Iowa civil rights law can't extend to China
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – The Iowa Supreme Court stated that the Iowa Civil Rights Act cannot extend extraterritorially on May 18, granting summary judgment to Deere & Co. in a former manager’s lawsuit claiming civil rights violations under the Iowa Civil Rights Act after he was fired. -
Freedom of information advocates baffled by state Supreme Court justice's ruling
DES MOINES (Legal Newsline) - Freedom of information advocates remain baffled by the decision from a state Supreme Court justice to bar a newspaper from publishing publicly available information. -
Hit by foul ball in dugout, high school baseball player sees verdict overturned
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – Six years after getting hit in the head with a foul ball at a high school baseball game, Spencer Ludman’s case was deemed worthy of a new trial by the Iowa Supreme Court on June 2. -
Iowa SC declares chiropractors' proposed class action over
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a district court decision that would have allowed a collective of similarly situated chiropractors to sue a health insurance company over alleged antitrust violations in the state. -
New ATRA program to tackle ‘deep-pocket jurisprudence’
Victor Schwartz, general counsel for the American Tort Reform Association and an expert on tort law, argues some courts in recent years have stretched tort law to impose liability on an innocent party. -
Attorney: Certification in Iowa class action bucks recent trend of judges' decisions
Plaintiffs filed a motion for class certification in Muscatine County District Court seeking to certify a class of residents who lived within 1.5 miles of the Grain Processing Corporation's facility and alleged lost-use-and-enjoyment damages as a result of emissions from the defendant’s corn milling plant. -
Iowa SC mostly rejects proposed consumer class action filed over overdraft fees
The plaintiffs sued the bank over one-time nonsufficient funds fees it charged when they used their debit cards to create overdrafts in their checking account. The couple, former customers of West Bank in Iowa, alleged the fees violated the state’s usury laws. -
Iowans receive restitution from buying club membership settlements
The attorney general’s Consumer Protection Division is issuing restitution checks to Iowans from a $40 million settlement from three separate buying club cases. -
Ala. SC reaffirms decision on ‘innovator liability’
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - The Alabama Supreme Court has reaffirmed its ruling in a case questioning whether a brand-name drug maker can be held liable for injuries from a generic version. -
Iowa SC: State can tax traditional phone companies' personal property, but not wireless providers'
DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) -- The Iowa Supreme Court ruled last week that the state can legally tax the personal property of traditional telephone companies but not force wireless providers to pay the same taxes.
