Iowa Supreme Court Decisions 2007

STATE OF IOWA vs. JAMES DONALD LANE
Date: December 28, 2007
Docket Number: 133/06-0024

STATE OF IOWA vs. DAWN MARIE NAIL and JOSHUA KUCERA
Date: December 28, 2007
Docket Number: 25/06-0410

MARK D. ANTOLIK vs. TARA J. McMAHON
Date: December 28, 2007
Docket Number: 112/060918

STATE OF IOWA vs. DARRYL ANTHONY McCOY
Date: December 21, 2007
Docket Number: 54/06-0339

MARLY ZIECKLER vs. AMPRIDE, DICKINSON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, MUTUAL SERVICE CASUALTY INSURANCE CO., C/O BERKLEY RISK, and IOWA INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
Date: December 14, 2007
Docket Number: 77/05-1958

KENNETH W. TURNER vs. IOWA STATE BANK & TRUST COMPANY OF FAIRFIELD, IOWA, and EARL WALLACE DICK
Date: December 14, 2007
Docket Number: 128/06-0490

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GLENN W. WOODROFFE, Deceased RANDOLPH W. WOODROFFE and JANICE M. WOODROFFE vs. THE ESTATE OF GLENN W. WOODROFFE, ELDA H. WOODROFFE, JEANNE A. WOODROFFE, REGINALD WOODROFFE, KERWIN WOODROFFE, and ANITA L. ERICKSON
Date: December 7, 2007
Docket Number: 13/05-0135

STATE OF IOWA vs. BENJAMIN DAVID GROVES
Date: December 7, 2007
Docket Number: 123/06-1233

STATE OF IOWA vs. JORDAN HEATH DENTLER
Date: December 7, 2007
Docket Number: 122/06-1905

DENNIS L. CAWTHORN vs. CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES IOWA CORP. d/b/a MERCY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER, a Corporation
Date: November 30, 2007
Docket Number: 56/04-1724

IN THE INTEREST OF A.W. and S.W., Minor Children, WOODBURY COUNTY ATTORNEY and A.W. and S.W., MINOR CHILDREN vs. IOWA
Date: November 30, 2007
Docket Number: 60/06-1074

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. KEVIN MICHAEL KIRLIN
Date: November 30, 2007
Docket Number: 135/07-1546

STATE OF IOWA vs. CHAD LAVERN ENDERLE
Date: November 16, 2007
Docket Number: 79/032085

STATE OF IOWA vs. DAVID MICHAEL BOGGS
Date: November 16, 2007
Docket Number: 42/05-1625

LAKESIDE CASINO and ZURICH-AMERICAN INSURANCE GROUP vs. DANA BLUE
Date: November 9, 2007
Docket Number: 15/03-1221

CHARMAINE HUNTER vs. CITY OF DES MOINES MUNICIPAL HOUSING AUTHORITY, RUSSELL UNDERWOOD, THERESA TAYLOR and TANGELA WEISS
Date: November 9, 2007
Docket Number: 35/05-0375

JACKIE WEISSENBURGER vs. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR WARREN COUNTY
Date: October 26, 2007
Docket Number: 47/05-0279

STATE OF IOWA vs. PHILIP BRIAN COOPER
Date: October 26, 2007
Docket Number: 132/06-0840

WATERLOO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION vs. IOWA PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD
Date: October 19, 2007
Docket Number: 16/05-1068

TYSON FOODS, INC. vs. MIGDALIA HEDLUND
Date: October 12, 2007
Docket Number: 88/05-2127

STATE OF IOWA vs. CHRISTOPHER JEROME TARBOX
Date: October 5, 2007
Docket Number: 100/05-1281

STEPHEN GRAY and SHELLY GRAY, Husband and Wife vs. JAMES R. OSBORN, III vs. STEPHEN GRAY and SHELLY GRAY
Date: October 5, 2007
Docket Number: 93/05-1850

CITY OF MADRID, IOWA, and EMC INSURANCE COMPANIES vs. ANGELA BLASNITZ
Date: October 5, 2007
Docket Number: 69/06-0977

IOWA ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS vs. IOWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION and THE IOWA AUDITOR OF STATE
Date: September 28, 2007
Docket Number: 51/05-1255

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROY N. JOHNSON , Deceased, WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, Executor of the Estate of EMOGENE F. JOHNSON
Date: September 28, 2007
Docket Number: 74/05-1965

STATE OF IOWA vs. JAMES HOWARD BENTLEY
Date: September 28, 2007
Docket Number: 75/06-1000

IN THE MATTER OF MICHAEL PATRICK NASH, Applicant for the Iowa
Date: September 21, 2007
Docket Number: 102/07-0286

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. MICHAEL D. BLAZEK
Date: September 21, 2007
Docket Number: 107/07-0507

EAST BUCHANAN TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, an Iowa Cooperative vs. IOWA UTILITIES BOARD, a Division of the Iowa Department of Commerce, and U.S. CELLULAR CORPORATION, QWEST CORPORATION, and OFFICE OF CONSUMER ADVOCATE
Date: September 14, 2007
Docket Number: 44/05-1212

SHARON MOHAMMED and DORIS WHIGHAM CURRY, as Co-Administrators of the Estate of JERRY WHIGHAM vs. E. ANTHONY OTOADESE, M.D.
Date: September 14, 2007
Docket Number: 45/05-1670

MARTHA J. STARK, REBECCA J. LODGE, and TERRY J. STARK vs. ALITA L. STARK
Date: September 14, 2007
Docket Number: 64/06-0035

STATE OF IOWA vs. LORANT A. WELLS
Date: September 7, 2007
Docket Number: 01/05-1798

STATE OF IOWA vs. CHRISTOPHER BARRON SMITH
Date: September 7, 2007
Docket Number: 34/05-2072

MICHAEL JOSEPH BERENT, MICHAEL STEVEN ROMP, JEFF WAYNE THORNE, PAUL BRYSON INGRAM, NICHELLE ALINE THOMPSON, RODNEY EDWARD SULLIVAN, SARA LILLIS EPSTEIN, SARA CRANE SWISHER, BETTE JAYNE MAYES, CAROLINE M. DIETERLE, MATT BLIZEK, MORI CONSTANTINO, AMANDA COYNE, LOLLY EGGERS, ELLEN HAYWOOD, JON KLINKOWITZ, KAREN KUBBY, BOB THOMPSON, JAMES WALTERS, ROBERTA TILL RETZ and JENNIE LOUISE EMBREE
Date: August 31, 2007
Docket Number: 46/06-1382

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. JOHN W. CARTY
Date: August 31, 2007
Docket Number: 70/07-0385

STATE OF IOWA vs. KEVIN KAWANZEL HARRIS
Date: August 24, 2007
Docket Number: 82/05-1521

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. GREGORY J. HUMPHREY
Date: August 24, 2007
Docket Number: 61/06-2061

ROBERT SWANSON vs. CIVIL COMMITMENT UNIT FOR SEX OFFENDERS (CCUSO) and IOWA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Date: August 17, 2007
Docket Number: 21/05-0845

STATE OF IOWA vs. JOANN MINNIE KAMBER
Date: August 17, 2007
Docket Number: 76/05-1868

BRITTANI RUCKER vs. HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, HUMBOLDT HIGH SCHOOL, and ROBERT HOFFMAN, BAND DIRECTOR
Date: August 17, 2007
Docket Number: 67/06-0094

JERRY D. LONGFELLOW vs. HAL SAYLER
Date: August 10, 2007
Docket Number: 71/05-1767

SECOND INJURY FUND OF IOWA vs. JACKIE GEORGE
Date: August 10, 2007
Docket Number: 58/05-1957

BIRCHANSKY REAL ESTATE, L.C., AND FOX EYE SURGERY, L.L.C. vs. IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, STATE HEALTH FACILITIES COUNCIL
Date: August 10, 2007
Docket Number: 73/05-2019

STATE OF IOWA ex rel. THOMAS J. MILLER, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF IOWA vs. SMOKERS WAREHOUSE CORP. and BRUCE VOGEL
Date: August 3, 2007
Docket Number: 32/04-1692

RANEE GREENFIELD and STUART GREENFIELD vs. THE CINCINNATI INSURANCE COMPANY
Date: August 3, 2007
Docket Number: 72/06-0032

STATE OF IOWA vs. JEFFREY LEWIS SPENCER
Date: August 3, 2007
Docket Number: 50/06-0565

AMES RENTAL PROPERTY ASSOCIATION vs. CITY OF AMES
Date: July 27, 2007
Docket Number: 38/05-0463

NORMAN J. KOLB, Trustee of the Robert James Kolb Memorial Trust vs. CITY OF STORM LAKE, IOWA
Date: July 27, 2007
Docket Number: 63/06-0067

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. STEVEN C. KAISER
Date: July 27, 2007
Docket Number: 78/07-0581

WAYLON D. ARY, Plaintiff, vs. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR BENTON COUNTY, Defendant. ----------------------------------------------------- IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF SARAH J. ARY AND WAYLON D. ARY Upon the Petition of SARAH J. ARY
Date: July 20, 2007
Docket Number: 66/03-2097

STEPHEN L. ORR, SHIRLEE ORR, RONALD E. CAMERON, RANDY SEVDE, and COLLEEN KATERIE SEVDE
Date: July 20, 2007
Docket Number: 140/04-1968

IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF MICHELE RENEE FENNELLY AND TED ERNST BRECKENFELDER Upon the Petition of MICHELE RENEE FENNELLY
Date: July 20, 2007
Docket Number: 23/05-1765

IN RE AHST COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC MEASURE "B" ELECTION, CONTESTANTS
Date: July 20, 2007
Docket Number: 68/06-1344

NORTHWEST INVESTMENT CORP. vs. EMMETT LEE WALLACE, WILLIAM R. HARVEY and HELEN I. HARVEY
Date: July 13, 2007
Docket Number: 17/05-0340

STATE OF IOWA vs. MARK ANTHONY ELSTON
Date: July 13, 2007
Docket Number: 53/05-1980

ADDISON INSURANCE COMPANY vs. KNIGHT, HOPPE, KURNIK & KNIGHT, L.L.C.
Date: June 29, 2007
Docket Number: 52/05-0306

DAVID RODDA vs. VERMEER MANUFACTURING and EMC RISK SERVICES, INC.
Date: June 29, 2007
Docket Number: 48/05-1371

JOHN DOE vs. STATE OF IOWA
Date: June 22, 2007
Docket Number: 08/04-1349

JOHN DOE vs. IOWA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Date: June 22, 2007
Docket Number: 09/04-1535

JEFF SOUTHARD, TRISH SOUTHARD, JEFFREY STICKEL, HEATHER STICKEL, MEL LINT, KEITH GOODYK, and GREG DANA, On Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated in the State of Iowa
Date: June 22, 2007
Docket Number: 137/04-1972

IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF LYLE MARTIN HANSEN and DELORES LORENE HANSEN Upon the Petition of LYLE MARTIN HANSEN
Date: June 15, 2007
Docket Number: 59/06-0191

STATE OF IOWA vs. TERRY LYNN McGRANE
Date: June 15, 2007
Docket Number: 57/06-0431

STATE OF IOWA vs. JOEL BRADFORD SMITHERMAN
Date: June 8, 2007
Docket Number: 112/05-0692

DEVIN W. ROWLING vs. JANE LOUISE SIMS
Date: June 8, 2007
Docket Number: 43/05-0947

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. RICHARD NORTON TOMPKINS, JR.
Date: June 8, 2007
Docket Number: 62/07-0132

RAYMOND TAYLOR, KEITH COMLEY, and VIVIAN EDGERTON vs. CENTRAL CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Date: June 1, 2007
Docket Number: 12/05-1047

WILLIAM HANNAN vs. STATE OF IOWA
Date: May 25, 2007
Docket Number: 49/05-0146

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. GREGORY ALAN JOHNSTON
Date: May 25, 2007
Docket Number: 02/06-1362

STATE OF IOWA vs. BENJAMIN THOMAS GORDON
Date: May 18, 2007
Docket Number: 120/04-1474

STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER vs. IOWA
Date: May 11, 2007
Docket Number: 29/04-2028

CHERYL C. WOODS vs. STEVEN YOUNG, DEAN LERNER, ROBERT GALBRAITH, DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTIONS AND APPEALS, and THE STATE OF IOWA
Date: May 11, 2007
Docket Number: 28/05-1290

DAVID FELDERMAN, Executor of the Estate of MARY BELLE WESTPHAL, Deceased vs. CITY OF MAQUOKETA, IOWA
Date: May 11, 2007
Docket Number: 31/05-1407

DOUGLAS JONES vs. STATE OF IOWA
Date: May 4, 2007
Docket Number: 141/04-1675

BRIAN L. EVANS vs. JUDY BENSON and BLUFFS PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATES, P.C.
Date: May 4, 2007
Docket Number: 05/05-1006

STATE OF IOWA vs. HARLAN MOTT, JR. Appellant. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HARLAN MOTT, JR., Plaintiff, vs. IOWA
Date: May 4, 2007
Docket Number: 24/05-1563

STATE OF IOWA vs. AARON BEUFORD STOHR
Date: April 27, 2007
Docket Number: 36/05-1107

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HESTER MARY LEWIS ANTON, Deceased, GRETCHEN COY vs. NANCY R. EZARSKI, Fiduciary of the Estate of HESTER MARY LEWIS ANTON
Date: April 27, 2007
Docket Number: 39/05-1534

STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff, vs. IOWA
Date: April 27, 2007
Docket Number: 30/06-0203

STATE OF IOWA vs. KENNETH DALE CARTER
Date: April 20, 2007
Docket Number: 90/04-1271

ALLIANT ENERGY-INTERSTATE POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, INTERSTATE POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, INTERSTATE POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, f/k/a IES UTILITIES, INC., and/or ALLIANT ENERGY CORPORATION vs. BO DUCKETT, a/k/a MARY DUCKETT, f/k/a MARY E. JEAMBEY
Date: April 20, 2007
Docket Number: 116/04-1986

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. KEITH GLENN THOMPSON
Date: April 20, 2007
Docket Number: 40/06-2046

DON WALDERBACH vs. ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE, INC.
Date: April 13, 2007
Docket Number: 132/05-0793

CLIFFORD AYERS vs. D & N FENCE COMPANY, INC. and EMC INSURANCE COMPANIES
Date: April 13, 2007
Docket Number: 27/05-1400

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. KERMIT LEE DUNAHOO
Date: April 13, 2007
Docket Number: 20/06-1754

KIRK M. SMITH vs. IOWA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Date: April 6, 2007
Docket Number: 110/04-2026

STEVEN J. FABER vs. DOUGLAS D. HERMAN
Date: April 6, 2007
Docket Number: 143/05-1040

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. DON E. GOTTSCHALK
Date: April 6, 2007
Docket Number: 26/06-1885

STATE OF IOWA, ex rel. JEANNIE E. DOBBS vs. JOHN BURCHE vs. JOHN A. BURCHE and MAURA BURCHE
Date: March 30, 2007
Docket Number: 145/04-0273

MYRON J. RAAS vs. STATE OF IOWA vs. STATE OF IOWA
Date: March 30, 2007
Docket Number: 104/05-1103/05-1110

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. BRIAN L. EARLEY
Date: March 30, 2007
Docket Number: 41/06-1904

STATE OF IOWA vs. CHARLES EDWARD ROSS III
Date: March 23, 2007
Docket Number: 126/05-0364

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. RYAN B. MOORMAN
Date: March 23, 2007
Docket Number: 19/06-1520

CHRISTOPHER ALES vs. ANDERSON, GABELMANN, LOWER & WHITLOW, P.C., f/k/a ANDERSON, GABELMANN, ALES, P.C.
Date: March 16, 2007
Docket Number: 03/04-2073

ROBIN OLSON vs. SCOTT SUMPTER
Date: March 16, 2007
Docket Number: 114/05-0161

TODD M. STEVENS vs. IOWA NEWSPAPERS, INC., SUSAN HARMAN and ERIK BROOKS
Date: March 9, 2007
Docket Number: 78/04-0987

STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER vs. IOWA
Date: March 9, 2007
Docket Number: 14/04-2029

MIDWEST CHECK CASHING, INC., d/b/a EZ MONEY CHECK CASHING vs. ERIN E. RICHEY
Date: March 5, 2007
Docket Number: 18/04-1653

JOHN ARNDT vs. CITY OF LE CLAIRE and HIGHLAND INSURANCE GROUP
Date: March 5, 2007
Docket Number: 11/05-1694

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. HUGH MICHAEL NEARY
Date: March 5, 2007
Docket Number: 139/06-1297

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. JAMES FRANKLIN HALL, JR.
Date: March 5, 2007
Docket Number: 133/06-1320

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. WILLIAM PORTER RICKABAUGH
Date: March 5, 2007
Docket Number: 04/05-1467

BILL FENNELLY, SCOTT COUNTY TREASURER vs. A-1 MACHINE & TOOL CO.
Date: February 23, 2007
Docket Number: 71/05-1052

BITUMINOUS CASUALTY CORPORATION vs. SAND LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS, INC. , a Nebraska Corporation; SAND SYSTEMS, INC. , a Nebraska Corporation; FURNAS COUNTY FARMS , a Nebraska General Partnership; and CORI A. GOSSAGE , Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Raymond Charles Gossage, Jr., and as Next Friend and Mother of Brian M. Gossage,
Date: February 23, 2007
Docket Number: 135/05-1063

STATE OF IOWA vs. RANDALL FREDRICK MUHLENBRUCH
Date: February 23, 2007
Docket Number: 06/05-2028

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. CHARLES K. BORTH
Date: February 23, 2007
Docket Number: 117/06-1017

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. STEVEN B. JOY
Date: February 23, 2007
Docket Number: 10/06-1760

ROBERT BREMER vs. JERRY WALLACE and IOWA GREAT LAKES LIFTS
Date: February 16, 2007
Docket Number: 84/04-1176

INSITUFORM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. vs. EMPLOYMENT APPEAL BOARD, a Unit of the Department of Inspections and Appeals, and LABOR COMMISSIONER
Date: February 16, 2007
Docket Number: 142/05-0740

IN RE MARRIAGE OF HOLLY A. HYNICK AND BRADLEY L. HYNICK Upon the Petition of HOLLY A. HYNICK
Date: February 16, 2007
Docket Number: 07/05-2103

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. MARTHA JOHNSON
Date: February 16, 2007
Docket Number: 129/06-1062

LAURA J. PERKINS by DAVID M. PERKINS, Her Parent and Next Friend vs. DALLAS CENTER-GRIMES COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Date: February 9, 2007
Docket Number: 122/05-1075

IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF JODY L. KEENER AND CONNIE H. KEENER Upon the Petition of JODY L. KEENER
Date: February 9, 2007
Docket Number: 130/05-1257

STATE OF IOWA vs. KHRISTA KAY ERDMAN, Defendant, ALWAYS AFFORDABLE BAIL BONDS, INC. and RANGER INSURANCE
Date: February 2, 2007
Docket Number: 119/04-1661

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. COLLEEN FLORENCE ALEXANDER
Date: February 2, 2007
Docket Number: 134/06-1458

AG PARTNERS, L.L.C. vs. CHICAGO CENTRAL & PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, d/b/a CANADIAN NATIONAL/ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD
Date: January 26, 2007
Docket Number: 136/05-1112

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. WILLIAM T. MORRISON
Date: January 26, 2007
Docket Number: 144/06-1390

STATE OF IOWA vs. JAMES ALAN LANE
Date: January 19, 2007
Docket Number: 54/04-1147

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD vs. RODNEY H. POWELL
Date: January 19, 2007
Docket Number: 138/06-1394

GORDON HARRINGTON vs. UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA
Date: January 5, 2007
Docket Number: 107/04-1673

IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF SCOTT L. RICKLEFS AND CHERYL A. RICKLEFS Upon the Petition of SCOTT L. RICKLEFS
Date: January 5, 2007
Docket Number: 127/05-1832

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