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Ex-Judge Gets 3-Month Suspension for Alcohol Issues and Criticizing Another Judge

A former Iowa judge, after a second conviction for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, is being barred from practicing law for three months partly because he criticized the judge presiding over his case. The Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling (PDF) Friday cited the convictions and two statements former Muscatine Judge James…

Mar 31, 2008 6:33 PM CDT

Iowa Law’s Career Office is Making House Calls

For University of Iowa College of Law grads who are at a standstill, not quite sure what to do next, expect a house call. UI law school officials have begun an innovative new program in which a college rep travels across Iowa or across the country to meet face-to-face with…

Jan 3, 2008 10:10 PM CST

State-Funded Prisoner Religion Program Tossed

A federal appeals court has ruled that a state-financed program that seeks to rehabilitate prisoners through Christian ideals violates the establishment clause. Americans United for Separation of Church and State had challenged the program run by InnerChange, a group affiliated with Charles Colson’s Prison Fellowship that operates in six states,…

Dec 4, 2007 5:55 PM CST

Missing Lawyer Found Dead

The Clinton, Conn., lawyer who disappeared in July after confessing he embezzled money from clients has apparently committed suicide. Police found the body of 59-year-old Jonathan Hoyt on Monday in an apartment he had been renting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, since the end of August, the Connecticut Law Tribune reports.…

Oct 31, 2007 10:48 AM CDT

Iowa Judge OKs Sperm Donation By Dying Man

An Iowa judge has OK’d a family’s plan to harvest sperm from a dying man so that his fiancée can later have his baby. The family sought the unusual ruling after the hospital at which Daniel Christy is on life support after a Sept. 9 motorcycle accident refused their request…

Sep 15, 2007 2:19 AM CDT

2 Men Wed, Then Iowa Ruling Suspended

Two gay men in Iowa persuaded a judge to approve an expedited wedding, paid an extra $5 fee and were married today, apparently becoming the first same-sex couple to wed in state history. But then the judge who approved same-sex Polk County marriages yesterday, saying that a previous legal ban…

Aug 31, 2007 11:10 PM CDT

$75 Million Attorney Fee an Iowa Record?

A judge’s approval today of a $180 million antitrust settlement by Microsoft Corp. includes $75 million in attorney fees and costs, which apparently sets an Iowa record. Lead counsel Roxanne Conlin of Des Moines, who brought the case with Richard Hagstrom of Minneapolis, says one reason why the legal bill…

Aug 31, 2007 10:22 PM CDT

$75 M Payday Before Judge

An Iowa judge will decide today whether to approve $75 million in attorney fees for two lawyers who settled a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for nearly $180 million. Microsoft has not objected to the fees for Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin and Minneapolis lawyer Richard Hagstrom of Zelle, Hofmann,…

Aug 31, 2007 10:50 AM CDT

Same-Sex Iowa Couples Can Marry

The judge’s ruling was so recent that one man was listed as the groom and the other was listed as the bride on their Polk County, Iowa, marriage license application. But what was important to Gary Allen Seronko, 51, and David Curtis Rethmeier, 29, was that the license application was…

Aug 30, 2007 11:52 PM CDT

Stutter Study Settlement is $925,000

Six plaintiffs who say they were badgered and belittled as children in a now-infamous stuttering study in the 1930s, leading to lifelong emotional problems, have agreed to settle their lawsuit. They had originally sought $13.5 million, but have now agreed to accept $925,000 from the state of Iowa, according to…

Aug 17, 2007 10:19 PM CDT

Out of the Blue

Even after the Supreme Court tried to rein in expert witnesses willing to testify at the drop of a theory, embattled dentist Michael West and his shining light prove that ‘science’ can be stranger than fiction.

Feb 1, 1996 9:48 PM CST

Ex-Judge Gets 3-Month Suspension for Alcohol Issues and Criticizing Another Judge

Iowa Law’s Career Office is Making House Calls

State-Funded Prisoner Religion Program Tossed

Missing Lawyer Found Dead

Iowa Judge OKs Sperm Donation By Dying Man

2 Men Wed, Then Iowa Ruling Suspended

$75 Million Attorney Fee an Iowa Record?

$75 M Payday Before Judge

Same-Sex Iowa Couples Can Marry

Stutter Study Settlement is $925,000

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