Iowa Court of Appeals Rules that ADA Amendments Apply to Iowa Civil Rights...
A divided panel of the Iowa Court of Appeals recently ruled that the rules of construction in the ADA as amended in 2008 apply to the Iowa Civil RIghts Act when determining what constitutes a...
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The Sweeping Reforms to Iowa’s Collective Bargaining Law May Be Short-Lived
There is reason to be concerned the AFSCME lawsuit challenging the recent collective bargaining amendments will undermine the legislature’s effort to reform public sector collective bargaining. As...
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Summary Judgement in Employment Discrimination Cases May Be Making a Comeback...
As we have written here many times, summary judgment is an important tool for defendants in employment discrimination cases. Studies have shown that in federal court, summary judgment is granted to...
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Iowa Civil Rights Act Protections Do Not Apply to Ex-Pat Employee
In the recent case of Jahnke v. Deere & Co. (May 18, 2018), the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a Deere employee who was repatriated to the United States as discipline for engaging in sexual...
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Iowa Supreme Court Reverses $4.5 Million Verdict in Age and Disability Case...
In July 2017, a jury in Poweshiek County, Iowa returned a verdict against Grinnell Regional Medical Center (GRMC) for $4.5 million in an age and disability discrimination lawsuit. The Grinnell...
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Iowa Supreme Court 2018-2019 Term in Review: Labor and Employment Edition...
The Iowa Supreme Court wrapped up its latest adjudicative term on June 28, 2019, having submitted 113 cases. More remarkable for the changes it witnessed than for its labor and employment decisions,...
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Iowa Supreme Court 2018-2019 Term in Review: Labor and Employment Edition...
As employment cases go, the 2018–2019 adjudicative term (covered in Part I here) may go down as a year of missed chances. In Hawkins v. Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Patrick Smith wrote in June,...
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Iowa Supreme Court to Address whether Wrongful-Discharge Claim Supplements...
It’s October, and the Iowa Supreme Court’s term is in full swing. Next week the Court will hear argument in Ferguson v. Exide Technologies (No. 18-1600). The case addresses whether an employee may...
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Iowa Supreme Court Grants Further Review in Important Drug-Testing Case
Last week, the Supreme Court granted further review in Dix v. Casey’s General Stores, Inc. (18-1464), a case under Iowa’s drug-testing statute (which covers alcohol testing too). In Dix, the Iowa...
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March 27 saw the Iowa Supreme Court grant further review in not one but two important drug-testing cases. Besides deciding to hear Dix v. Casey’s General Stores, Inc. (covered here), the Court also...
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