In Estate of Gray v. Baldi, 880 N.W.2d 451 (Iowa 2016), the Iowa Supreme Court addressed evidence offered in resistance to a summary judgment motion that was contradictory to other evidence. In [...]
In a February 2016 decision, the Iowa Supreme Court indicated that it had “initiated an effort to explore [the] possible amendment” of Rule 1.904. See Hedlund v. State, 875 N.W.2d 720 (Iowa 2016).
In addition to clarifying that most jury instructions are reviewed for corrections of error at law, the Iowa Supreme Court in Alcala v. Marriott International, Inc., et. al. addressed two issues [...]
In Alcala v. Marriott International, Inc., 880 N.W.2d 699 (Iowa 2016), the Iowa Supreme Court held that the standard of review for the refusal to give a requested jury instruction is for [...]
Last year we reported on an Iowa Court of Appeals decision that has now been vacated by the Iowa Supreme Court. In 2015 the Iowa Court of Appeals decided Winger v. CM Holdings, L.L.C., [...]
By: Nancy Penner
In a February 26, 2016 decision, the Iowa Supreme Court ended with the following “important” point:
[T]his court is aware that rule 1.904(2) has been subject to [...]
Until recently, courts within Iowa’s various judicial districts had different philosophies and practices regarding whether or when a spouse could obtain a decree terminating the parties’ marriage [...]
In State v. Webster, 865 N.W.2d 223 (Iowa 2015), the Court addressed a number of jury issues including a juror’s activity on Facebook during trial. After an extensive discussion of many issues in [...]
By: Vince Geis**Vince was a summer associate at Shuttleworth in 2015 and a student at the University of Iowa College of Law.
In Nelson v. Lindaman, No. 13–0719, [...]
In Winger v. CM Holdings, L.L.C., 2015 WL 2393447 (Iowa Ct. App.), the Iowa Court of Appeals addressed the question of whether a violation of a city housing code provision is negligence [...]
From 2004 through 2011, DeWitt Bank & Trust loaned millions of dollars to Community Care, Inc. (CCI), a non-profit Iowa corporation providing residential health care services to eastern [...]
Recent amendments to the Iowa Civil Rules of Civil Procedure align discovery and pretrial procedures more closely with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and attempt to prevent abuses of the [...]
