Iowa Supreme Court Decisions 2016
Date: December 30, 2016
Docket Number: 141851
Justia Opinion Summary: Pursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to theft in the first degree. The district court sentenced Defendant to a term of imprisonment and imposed fines and restitution. The sentencing order also included…
Date: December 30, 2016
Docket Number: 150840
Justia Opinion Summary: Rosalva Ochoa was terminated from her employment with JBS Swift & Company for absenteeism. Ochoa filed two workers’ compensation petitions against Swift and its workers’ compensation carrier, alleging a cumulative left…
Date: December 23, 2016
Docket Number: 141622
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and Defendant were siblings who owned two farm properties as tenants in common. The first tract was located in Butler County and the second tract was located in Hardin County. In 2013, Plaintiff filed separate…
Date: December 23, 2016
Docket Number: 150101
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was on probation after having been convicted of drug offenses related to methamphetamine when his sister and father, concerned that he had relapsed, contacted his probation officer. Probation officers were…
Date: December 23, 2016
Docket Number: 150164
Justia Opinion Summary: Lumber Specialties was hired as a subcontractor on a construction project to provide the truss package and certain engineering services. Dinsdale Construction was hired to supply the labor and building materials on the…
Date: December 23, 2016
Docket Number: 150948
Justia Opinion Summary: An inmate pled guilty to domestic abuse assault in a plea bargain that dismissed a related sex abuse charge. After the inmate arrived at a facility of the Iowa Department of Corrections (IDOC), the IDOC required the…
Date: December 23, 2016
Docket Number: 151838
Justia Opinion Summary: Testator executed a last will and testament devising property to her adult son and daughter. After the will was executed but before Testator’s death, Son was adopted by his paternal aunt. After Testator’s death, Daughter…
Date: December 16, 2016
Docket Number: 160918
Justia Opinion Summary: The Department of Human Services filed a petition to terminate Father’s parental rights to his minor child. After a hearing, the district court terminated Father’s parental rights under Iowa Code 232.116(1)(e) and (f).…
Date: December 16, 2016
Docket Number: 161551
Date: December 9, 2016
Docket Number: 151413
Justia Opinion Summary: The Dyersville City Council voted to rezone the area containing the Field of Dreams movie site from agricultural to commercial in order to facilitate the development of a baseball and softball complex. Community members…
Date: December 9, 2016
Docket Number: 151758
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to theft in the third degree. The district court sentenced Defendant to a suspended term of imprisonment and ordered that he pay $2950 in restitution to the victim. At a hearing, the victim…
Date: December 2, 2016
Docket Number: 150547
Justia Opinion Summary: Father filed a petition seeking a permanent injunction precluding communication and contact between his minor children and their former softball coach. The district court granted a permanent injunction against the former…
Date: November 18, 2016
Docket Number: 142104
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with operating while intoxicated, third offense. Defendant filed a motion to suppress evidence obtained after a police officer pulled his patrol car into Defendant’s driveway with its emergency…
Date: November 18, 2016
Docket Number: 150714
Justia Opinion Summary: Insured filed a complaint challenging Insurer’s termination of workers’ compensation issuance. The insurance commissioner declined to consider the merits of the complaint on the ground that the complaint raised factual…
Date: November 18, 2016
Docket Number: 151459
Justia Opinion Summary: Shannon Breeden and Laura Hochmuth, both juveniles when their crimes were committed, were convicted of forcible felonies listed in Iowa Code 902.12. Both offenders were subject to the mandatory minimum requirement to…
Date: November 18, 2016
Docket Number: 151827
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of attempted murder and terrorism with intent. Appellant was a juvenile when he committed the offenses. Appellant was sentenced to an indeterminate term of incarceration. A mandatory minimum…
Date: November 18, 2016
Docket Number: 160133
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner received a one-year driver’s license revocation and suspension for failure to submit to chemical testing. The Department of Transportation (DOT) affirmed the ALJ’s decision. Petitioner sought judicial review…
Date: November 18, 2016
Docket Number: 160540
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellee pled guilty to a crime listed in Iowa Code 902.12, which requires offenders to serve a mandatory minimum term of their sentence before being eligible for parole or work release. Appellee, who was a juvenile when…
Date: November 10, 2016
Docket Number: 151502
Date: November 10, 2016
Docket Number: 152099
Justia Opinion Summary: This petition for injunctive relief and writ of mandamus challenged the Governor’s item veto of appropriations intended to fund the Mount Pleasant and Clarinda Mental Health Institutes. The AFSCME Iowa Council 61…
Date: November 10, 2016
Docket Number: 152109
Date: November 10, 2016
Docket Number: 160130
Date: November 10, 2016
Docket Number: 160199
Date: October 28, 2016
Docket Number: 150740
Justia Opinion Summary: Iowa Arboretum, Inc. and Iowa 4-H Foundation entered into a ninety-nine-year lease agreement for a tract of land owned by the Foundation. The majority of the land is used by the Arboretum as an arboretum. The Foundation…
Date: October 28, 2016
Docket Number: 160652
Date: October 21, 2016
Docket Number: 150848
Justia Opinion Summary: The Iowa District Court for Story County issued an order appointing the local public defender of Nevada, Iowa to represent a juvenile, who had been detained. The public defender filed a motion to withdraw, citing…
Date: October 21, 2016
Docket Number: 152095
Justia Opinion Summary: Following the death of Cletus Roth, a resident of a nursing facility operated by The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, Roth’s estate and his adult children filed an action against Good Samaritan, alleging,…
Date: October 14, 2016
Docket Number: 150105
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a dispute over a change in hauling fees paid by a dairy cooperative to an independent contractor who transported milk from farms to the cooperative’s facilities. When the co-op notified the hauler that…
Date: September 23, 2016
Docket Number: 150852
Justia Opinion Summary: Dennis Smith, a former employee of Iowa State University (ISU), sued ISU and the State of Iowa (collectively, ISU) after his position at the university was eliminated. Smith ultimately recovered $150,000 on his statutory…
Date: September 16, 2016
Docket Number: 150321
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to carrying weapons, an aggravated misdemeanor. Defendant appealed, arguing that the sentencing judge should have sua sponte recused himself from the case based on his prior familiarity with…
Date: September 16, 2016
Docket Number: 160731
Date: September 9, 2016
Docket Number: 160111
Date: September 9, 2016
Docket Number: 160131
Date: September 2, 2016
Docket Number: 051365
Date: September 2, 2016
Docket Number: 160625
Date: June 30, 2016
Docket Number: 130739
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder. The court of appeals reversed, concluding (1) the State violated Appellant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel by acquiring incriminating evidence…
Date: June 30, 2016
Docket Number: 151661
Justia Opinion Summary: Kelli Jo Griffin was convicted for the crime of delivery of a controlled substance. Griffin later registered to vote and cast a provision ballot in a municipal election. The county auditor concluded that Griffin was not…
Date: June 24, 2016
Docket Number: 140199
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs’ daughter fatally fell over the railing of an apartment balcony. The railing complied with the local housing code when the apartment complex was built but was ten inches shorter than allowed under the current…
Date: June 24, 2016
Docket Number: 140773
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, a high school football player, was charged with possession of a firearm as a felon, carrying a weapon on school grounds, carrying a weapon, and possession of a controlled substance after the school…
Date: June 24, 2016
Docket Number: 141808
Justia Opinion Summary: Erika Spitz and Bradley Gentz, the parents of three minor children, were divorced in 2011. Erika and Bradley were later found in contempt for willfully violating provisions of the dissolution decree. Both Erika and…
Date: June 24, 2016
Docket Number: 150624
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was detained at the police station for suspicion of drunk driving but was not yet formally charged when he made a phone call with a lawyer to get advice regarding the implied-consent procedure and his decision…
Date: June 17, 2016
Docket Number: 141180
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff’s ten-year-old child died when Plaintiff’s boyfriend drove the speedboat in which the child was riding between two danger buoys and struck a submerged dredge pipe. Plaintiff settled claims against her…
Date: June 17, 2016
Docket Number: 142075
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with one count of driving while barred and one count of prostitution. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss, asserting that the state failed to try her case within ninety days of filing the trial…
Date: June 17, 2016
Docket Number: 160097
Justia Opinion Summary: The Iowa Commission on Judicial Qualifications recommended that a magistrate, who maintained a website where he posted information regarding his availability to perform marriage ceremonies - for a fee - at locations…
Date: June 10, 2016
Docket Number: 130346
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by commission of public offense and child endangerment resulting in death. The trial court merged the sentences for the charges under the…
Date: June 10, 2016
Docket Number: 141058
Justia Opinion Summary: While she was a business guest at the Courtyard by Marriott, Plaintiff slipped and fell on its icy sidewalk, breaking her ankle. After a trial, the jury found Marriott ninety-eight percent at fault and awarded Plaintiff…
Date: June 10, 2016
Docket Number: 141274
Justia Opinion Summary: Developers and a general contractor of an apartment complex purchased a primary commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policy from Arch Insurance Group and an excess CGL insurance policy from National Surety…
Date: June 10, 2016
Docket Number: 150334
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a class action petition against J.C. Penney asserting that the internet retailer unlawfully charged Iowa sales tax on shipping and handling charges. J.C. Penney forwarded the tax to the Iowa Department of…
Date: June 3, 2016
Docket Number: 140632
Justia Opinion Summary: An aviation company challenged the application of a statutory immunity provision to its claim of a breach of the implied warranty of merchantability found in the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) arising from an alleged…
Date: June 3, 2016
Docket Number: 142097
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal, the issue this case presented for the Iowa Supreme Court's review was whether an employer’s matching contributions to an employee’s 401k plan should be considered part of weekly earnings for purposes of…
Date: June 3, 2016
Docket Number: 150104
Justia Opinion Summary: Sondra Irving was employed as a medical assistant at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC). She was arrested on November 28, 2013, and incarcerated through December 24, but the charges were ultimately…
Date: May 27, 2016
Docket Number: 140207
Justia Opinion Summary: David Taft, Jr. was convicted in 1987 for lascivious acts with a minor. He received one two-year and two five-year sentences. The sentences were ordered to be served concurrently. Taft was discharged in 1991. He was…
Date: May 27, 2016
Docket Number: 140455
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, seventeen-year-old appellant Isaiah Sweet shot and killed Richard and Janet Sweet. Richard and Janet had cared for Sweet since he was four years old, as his biological mother was unable to do. Richard was…
Date: May 27, 2016
Docket Number: 150806
Justia Opinion Summary: A federal district court certified two questions of law to the Iowa Supreme Court in a priority dispute between competing creditors of a bankrupt hog operation. Crooked Creek Corporation operated a farrow-to-finish hog…
Date: May 20, 2016
Docket Number: 141623
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted Glendale More Jr. of first-degree murder in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Wauneita Townsend. He applied for postconviction relief, arguing that he was entitled to a new trial because at…
Date: May 20, 2016
Docket Number: 160005
Justia Opinion Summary: The Iowa Commission on Judicial Qualifications filed an application for discipline of a judicial officer recommending the Supreme Court publicly reprimand district court judge Mary E. Howes, Seventh Judicial District.…
Date: May 13, 2016
Docket Number: 141860
Justia Opinion Summary: Attorney Larry Stoller filed a multicount petition on behalf of NuStar Farms, LLC against Robert and Marcia Zylstra, alleging that the Zylstras agreed to sell NuStar a parcel of farmland but failed to tender the…
Date: May 13, 2016
Docket Number: 151824
Date: May 6, 2016
Docket Number: 140019
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with domestic abuse assault. During trial, the court admitted evidence about previous incidents during which Defendant allegedly slapped the victim, struck her, and threw her against a refrigerator,…
Date: May 6, 2016
Docket Number: 140820
Justia Opinion Summary: After Tenants moved out of an apartment, Landlord withheld the rental deposit for an automatic carpet-cleaning charge, replacement of a damaged door, and monthly penalties for failure to pay for the door. Tenant sued in…
Date: May 6, 2016
Docket Number: 141547
Justia Opinion Summary: Paul Gray’s surviving spouse, Brenna, and daughter, O.D.G., filed suit against Dr. Daniel Baldi and several Iowa healthcare providers, alleging that Defendants negligently treated Paul during his struggle with substance…
Date: May 6, 2016
Docket Numbers: 141783, 141783
Justia Opinion Summary: After Tenants moved out of an apartment, Landlord deducted $904 fomr the rental deposit for an automatic carpet-cleaning charge, replacement of an interior door, and monthly penalties for failure to pay for the door.…
Date: April 29, 2016
Docket Number: 140067
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with two counts of robbery in the second degree. Defendant filed a motion to suppress, arguing that the warrantless search of his closed backpack by an officer who relied on a third party’s consent…
Date: April 22, 2016
Docket Number: 140569
Justia Opinion Summary: In response to a 2009 executive order announcing a ten percent reduction in state departments and agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, the Iowa Department of Human Services (IDHS) promulgated temporary…
Date: April 22, 2016
Docket Number: 141362
Justia Opinion Summary: A citizens group and a school district (collectively, Appellants) challenged a city’s amendment of an economic development urban renewal plan. Specifically, Appellants challenged the use of tax increment financing (TIF)…
Date: April 22, 2016
Docket Number: 141799
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with dependent adult abuse for allegedly punching a disabled client while Defendant was employed at a home caring for dependent adults. Defendant was charged with dependent adult abuse. The State…
Date: April 22, 2016
Docket Number: 150030
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty to failure to comply with sex-offender registry requirements. Defendant committed the offense while on parole for the underlying sex crime. The district court imposed a two-year prison sentence…
Date: April 15, 2016
Docket Number: 140640
Justia Opinion Summary: Employee injured her back during the course of her employment. Employer paid for the cost of care Employee received to treat her injury through September 2009. Employee later brought a workers’ compensation claim seeking…
Date: April 15, 2016
Docket Number: 141615
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled not guilty to the charge of delivering methamphetamine. During jury selection, the prosecutor posed hypothetical questions approximating the facts of the case, intimated the State possessed additional…
Date: April 15, 2016
Docket Number: 151169
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant pleaded guilty to one count of criminal transmission of HIV. Appellant later filed an application for postconviction relief alleging that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by allowing Appellant…
Date: April 8, 2016
Docket Number: 131238
Justia Opinion Summary: Pursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance first offense. The judgment and sentence provided that Defendant’s driver’s license shall be revoked for 180 days and…
Date: April 8, 2016
Docket Number: 141112
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of three counts of delivery of a controlled substance. The court of appeals reversed, concluding that defendant’s right to a fair trial by an impartial jury was violated due to…
Date: April 8, 2016
Docket Number: 152008
Justia Opinion Summary: The Iowa Commission on Judicial Qualifications filed an application for imposition of discipline against Joseph Sevcik, a part-time magistrate who also practiced law. The Commission found Magistrate Sevcik violated two…
Date: April 1, 2016
Docket Number: 140357
Justia Opinion Summary: The juvenile court adjudicated J.C. a delinquent child after finding beyond a reasonable doubt that J.C. committed assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. The court of appeals affirmed. At issue before the Supreme…
Date: April 1, 2016
Docket Number: 151161
Justia Opinion Summary: An SUV was being driven in the wrong direction on a highway when it collided with a semi-tractor-trailer. The SUV was totaled, and the SUV’s driver was killed. Second later, a motorcyclist ran into the SUV that was still…
Date: March 25, 2016
Docket Number: 131397
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants participated in an insurance fraud ring that staged car accidents in Illinois. Defendants lived in Wisconsin and Illinois and had never been to Iowa before their extradition. A Wisconsin insurance company paid…
Date: March 25, 2016
Docket Number: 140816
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with attempted murder, robbery, and willful injury. During jury deliberations, Defendant moved for a mistrial or, alternatively, a poll of the jurors about their possible exposure to a factually…
Date: March 25, 2016
Docket Number: 150573
Justia Opinion Summary: Mother and Father were divorced pursuant to a decree that called for the continuation of a rotating custodial framework that the parties had followed during the previous two years. The Supreme Court affirmed, concluding…
Date: March 18, 2016
Docket Number: 141605
Justia Opinion Summary: The Iowa Individual Health Benefit Reinsurance Association (“IIHBRA”), a nonprofit corporation, sued its members (“the universities”) for unpaid assessments it was statutorily obligated to collect. The universities filed…
Date: March 18, 2016
Docket Number: 141649
Justia Opinion Summary: Former employees of Warren County sued the County and its Board of Supervisors, alleging a violation of the open meetings law contained in Iowa Code chapter 21. The district court dismissed the action, concluding that…
Date: March 18, 2016
Docket Number: 141918
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a class action alleging that the fees Defendant charged for providing copies of their medical records and billing statements were excessive in violation of Iowa Code 622.10(6). Defendant filed a motion…
Date: March 11, 2016
Docket Number: 140401
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder. The trial court instructed the jury on both the premeditation and felony-murder alternatives of first-degree murder, with the underlying predicate…
Date: March 11, 2016
Docket Number: 141553
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, an agricultural supply company, was delivering its own products in a semi-trailer when the semi-trailer wrecked and spilled fertilizers and chemicals, contaminating several hundred cubic yards of soil.…
Date: March 11, 2016
Docket Number: 151198
Justia Opinion Summary: R.D., now age fifty-one, was born in Iowa to parents who gave her up for adoption. The adoption records were sealed. R.D.’s adoptive family was loving and supportive, but R.D. struggles with depression, anxiety, and…
Date: March 4, 2016
Docket Number: 131202
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of domestic abuse assault and domestic abuse assault causing bodily injury. Defendant appealed, arguing that the district court erred in (1) admitting hearsay statements…
Date: March 4, 2016
Docket Number: 131906
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to two counts of sexual abuse in the third degree. The district sentenced Defendant to two concurrent, indeterminate ten-year sentences. Defendant appealed, arguing that the district court applied…
Date: March 4, 2016
Docket Number: 151256
Justia Opinion Summary: The juvenile court terminated Mother’s parental rights to two of her children, M.W. and Z.W., concluding that each of the statutory grounds advanced by the State in its petition for termination of parental rights as to…
Date: February 26, 2016
Docket Number: 130988
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of drug dealing, child endangerment, and possession of firearms. The trial court sentenced Defendant to 100 years in prison with a mandatory one-third minimum term. The…
Date: February 26, 2016
Docket Number: 140889
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of lascivious acts with a child for inappropriately touching his granddaughter’s genitals over her clothing on more than one occasion. Defendant appealed, arguing…
Date: February 26, 2016
Docket Number: 141969
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a former agent of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation brought this action alleging wrongful discharge in violation of public policy. The Supreme Court dismissed the common-law wrongful discharge claim.…
Date: February 26, 2016
Docket Number: 151917
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 130712
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of forgery and falsifying a public document. Defendant filed a motion for new trial, arguing that the evidence of his efforts to avoid apprehension was improperly admitted.…
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 131997
Justia Opinion Summary: After a bench trial, Defendant was found guilty of going armed with a dangerous weapon concealed on or about her person. The conviction stemmed from Defendant's act of carrying a stun gun with her in her purse. The court…
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 140831
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was arrested for driving while intoxicated. Defendant was transported to a law enforcement center and placed in the booking room. Defendant telephoned an attorney, who went into the booking room to meet with…
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 140093
Justia Opinion Summary: The Polk County assessor set the 2011 valuation of Wellmark, Inc.’s corporate headquarters located in Des Moines at $99 million. Wellmark protested. The Polk County Board of Review denied the protest. On appeal, the…
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 140656
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was approached by law enforcement officers while walking on the side of the road at 1:10 a.m. The officers asked Defendant if he would consent to a search of his person, and Defendant consented to a search.…
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 141386
Justia Opinion Summary: Tina Lee filed suit against the State, alleging a violation of her rights under the self-care provision of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In October 2007, the district court entered judgment in favor of Lee and…
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 141550
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued his former criminal defense attorneys for legal malpractice, alleging that they allowed him to plead guilty to a crime that lacked a factual basis. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of…
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 141987
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 131926
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this quiet title action was whether the two-year special statute of limitations in Iowa Code 615.1(1) applies only to judgment liens or whether the underlying debt is also extinguished after the end of the…
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 140317
Justia Opinion Summary: After a trial, the district court entered judgment in this divorce case distributing the parties’ assets, ordering Husband to pay spousal support, awarding primary physical custody of the parties’ two children to Wife,…
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 141536
Justia Opinion Summary: Bank was the holder of a promissory note executed by Mortgagors and the mortgage that secured the note. After Mortgagors defaulted on the note Bank brought a foreclosure action and obtained an in rem judgment and decree…
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 142095
Justia Opinion Summary: The Regional Utility Service Systems Commission (RUSS) brought a breach of contract action against the City of Mount Union. The district court entered judgment in favor of RUSS. The clerk of court subsequently issued a…
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 140256
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of second-degree murder for delivering the first, nonlethal blow to the victim in a fatal beating. Defendant’s blow knocked the victim down, and then others kicked and stomped the victim to death.…
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 140691
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, former customers of West Bank, filed a multiple-count proposed consumer class action lawsuit against the Bank challenging one-time nonsufficient funds fees the Bank charged when Plaintiffs used their debit…
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 140692
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, former customers of West Bank, filed a multiple-count proposed consumer class action lawsuit against the Bank challenging one-time nonsufficient funds fees the Bank charged when Plaintiffs used their debit…
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 141557
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a tort claim with the state appeal board for wrongful death, alleging that the Iowa Department of Transportation’s negligent maintenance of a highway caused her husband’s death. The appeal board took no…
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 142006
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was whether the terms of two five-year leases, which automatically self-renewed for four additional five-year terms unless the tenant unilaterally opted out of the lease, offended Iowa Const. art.…
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 142114
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with first-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, and domestic abuse. The district court found Defendant to be indigent and appointed private counsel to represent him. Defendant pled not guilty and…
Date: January 8, 2016
Docket Number: 140298
Justia Opinion Summary: A fire severely damaged a restaurant that was owned by Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs made a claim to Defendant, the insurer of the restaurant, but Defendant denied the majority of the claim. Plaintiffs filed a…
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