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The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
March 31, 2018
(FILE PHOTO) The courtroom for the Iowa Supreme Court at the Iowa Judicial Building in Des Moines on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette) ... Waterman pointed out that 95 percent of felony cases in state and federal courts are resolved by guilty pleas. He feared that pleaÃâà...
WTOP
March 31, 2018
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday upheld the conviction of a high school teacher who claimed his only physical contact with the student was hugging, finding that the hugging amounted to sexual misconduct in light of instant messages that showed she had “become the objectÃâà...
KCRG
March 31, 2018
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a former high school teacher who argued that his hugs with a 17-year-old student didn't amount to sexual misconduct. The justices wrote in their ruling Friday that although nothing should prohibit teachers from huggingÃâà...
Quad City Times
March 30, 2018
Nature's Treatment of Iowa, backed by Matt Stern, applied in early March to build a site in Eldridge, but Iowa Department of Public Health officials ruled out its application — before scoring it — during the technical review stage. The company failed to show it had begun the registration process with the IowaÃâà...
NPR
March 30, 2018
Court Rules Iowa Man May Say His Hometown Stinks ... A court sided with Harms. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning. I'm David Greene. Josh Harms was sick of the smell of rancid dog food odor he said was coming from a processing plant in his hometown of Sibley, Iowa. So he started a websiteÃâà...
Law360
March 8, 2018
Law360 (March 7, 2018, 10:53 PM EST) -- A city in Iowa can't make its insurer pay for equipment that was damaged “when a gray squirrel scampered into an electrical substation” and made contact with a 7,200-volt circuit, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday, finding coverage for the violent electrical arcing that ensued isÃâà...
Spencer Daily Reporter
March 8, 2018
The defense attorney for an Estherville man convicted of murder has asked the Iowa Court of Appeals to reconsider the verdict. Iowa City Attorney Leon Spies argues Lee Christensen committed voluntary manslaughter — not second-degree murder — when he shot 19-year-old Thomas Bortvit at least fiveÃâà...
Iowa City Press Citizen
March 8, 2018
The union that represents University of Iowa nurses is again furthering its fight to secure a bargaining agreement, this time appealing to the Iowa Supreme Court. Service Employees International Union, the union that represents University of Iowa nurses and other professionals in UI Hospitals and Clinics,Ãâà...
Iowa Public Radio
March 7, 2018
The Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case in which two women are suing a Pella church for failing to supervise a pastor who sexually exploited them. The Bandstra family argues they should be allowed to sue the Board of Elders of the Covenant Reformed Church for negligentÃâà...
KCCI Des Moines
December 31, 1999
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear what is now considered a landmark decision that set a precedent for many free speech cases. In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the court ruled that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech orÃâà...
