Gazette Editorial Board – Last week’s Iowa Supreme Court decision, that married lesbian parents both should be listed on a child’s birth certificate, could mean that at least some children’s birth records include the names of parents, rather than mothers and fathers. But that is the biggest change represented by the court’s unanimous opinion. Because [...]
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Last week’s state Supreme Court ruling — that both spouses in a lesbian marriage should be listed on a child’s birth certificate — wasn’t just the only legally logical way the court could have come down on the issue, although it is that. And please don’t write to tell me all about how babies [...]
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UPDATE: The Iowa Department of Public Health may replace ‘father’ and ‘mother’ labels with ‘parent’ on Iowa birth certificates following an Iowa Supreme Court ruling Friday requiring the department to list both lesbian spouses on a child’s birth certificate. “The Department of Public Health appreciates the definitive direction from the Supreme Court,” wrote public health [...]
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The Iowa Senate approved a standing appropriations bill Monday night by a 26-21 party-line margin after debating a number of stalled policy issues that backers made a last-gasp effort to revive. Banning traffic enforcement cameras, exempting savings income from taxation and farmers from liability, expanding criminal background checks to businesses catering to children, and using [...]
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The first-degree murder conviction of a Marengo woman who beat to death her boyfriend in 2009 was upheld Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court. Denise Frei, 47, was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for the first-degree murder of her boyfriend Curtis Bailey on July 19, 2009. She was convicted Aug. 25, 2011 after [...]
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The Iowa Supreme Court suspended the license of a Cedar Rapids lawyer who was convicted earlier this year for possession of crack cocaine. Stanley Roush, 52, who has been a licensed attorney since 1984, cannot practice law for 60 days, according to Friday’s court ruling. Within 45 days of the suspension, Roush must also provide [...]
continue »A Cedar Rapids attorney was disbarred this week for taking $800,000 from client accounts that was used for her “gambling addiction,” according to disbarment documents filed Wednesday with the Iowa Supreme Court. Susan L. Hense, of the Hense Law Firm, who has been in practice since September 1996, admitted to misconduct and consented to the [...]
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Forget hate, how does “Don’t fire me because I’m beautiful” sound for an ad campaign? Not that I think that last week’s Iowa Supreme Court ruling — that a Fort Dodge dentist didn’t break the law when he fired an assistant for being distractingly attractive — is going to lead to mass layoffs of Iowa’s [...]
continue »By The Gazette Editorial Board —- CONTROVERSIAL Use of traffic enforcement cameras have been a controversial issue ever since the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that local municipalities had the constitutional right to use them. Cities using the systems issue civil citations and fines on the vehicle’s owner, who may or may not [...]
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Related story by Trish Mehaffey here Map for Michael Streit, 2010 Map for David Baker, 2010 Map for Marsha Ternus, 2010 Map for David Wiggins, 2012 Counties where majority voted to retain Wiggins (counties where majority voted to oust judges in 2010 appear in bold): Allamakee Black Hawk Boone Bremer Buchanan Cedar Cerro Gordo Clayton [...]
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