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We have written detailed reviews of Iowa law impacting agricultural producers and landowners. Access these reviews by clicking on the tiles below. You can also review Iowa cases on a particular subject by searching our list of Iowa case law reviews at the bottom of this page.
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February 25, 2015|Iowa Governor Branstad signed S.F. 257 into law today, raising the Iowa excise tax on fuel for motor vehicles (including gasoline and diesel fuel) by 10 cents per gallon.
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February 25, 2015|
The Iowa Court of Appeals recently affirmed a legal malpractice judgment against a law firm that represented an Iowa bank in an unsuccessful accounting malpractice action. The court determined that, in addition to damages stemming from the unsuccessful lawsuit, the bank was entitled to collect the attorney fees paid to the law firm to prosecute the accounting malpractice action.
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February 23, 2015|A recent Iowa Court of Appeals decision should alert landlords of all kinds to their potential premises liability to third parties.
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February 18, 2015|When I was in journalism school, my professors had a policy that if you spelled a name wrong in a story, you flunked the assignment.
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February 15, 2015|Rock Island Clean Line (RICL) is seeking a franchise from the Iowa Utitlies Board (IUB) to build a high voltage direct current line across Iowa. The line would transport wind energy generated in northwest Iowa to Illinois.
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February 13, 2015|
The Iowa Court of Appeals recently weighed in on the important issue of valuing a closely held family corporation in a dissolution proceeding. Calling such valuations an “inherently difficult endeavor,” the court landed on a 20 percent marketability discount and increased the equalization payment the husband was to pay the wife.
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February 11, 2015|
The Iowa Court of Appeals decided another boundary by acquiescence case on February 11, this time finding that no such boundary was established.
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February 3, 2015|
The Iowa Court of Appeals recently determined that the owner of a landlocked parcel had a right to seek condemnation for an access road, but improperly sought to condemn a route that did not meet the statutory requirements. The case is a good illustration of the statutory rules that must be followed for establishing the location of a right-of-way via condemnation.
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January 29, 2015|
The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld a judgment of $1.4 million in punitive damages against a landlord who intentionally interfered with his tenant’s ability to rent other farm properties. While punitive damages are rarely awarded, Iowa law does allow them when it's shown by clear and convincing evidence that a party has "willfully and wantonly disregarded the rights or safety of another."
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January 28, 2015|
Two farm-related organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers' Council, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Administrative Procedures Act to bar EPA's release of member information involving physical addresses and details concerning the members' operation of Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
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January 22, 2015|
On January 20, 2015, Dakota Access, LLC, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, filed a petition with the Iowa Board of Utilities seeking a permit to build a crude oil pipeline across the State of Iowa.
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January 15, 2015|
On January 8, 2015, the Des Moines Board of Water Works Trustees (DMWW) voted unanimously to send a notice of intent to file a Clean Water Act citizen lawsuit against the county supervisors of Sac, Buena Vista, and Calhoun Counties in Iowa.
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November 28, 2014|
Under Iowa law, the terms of a power of attorney (POA) are strictly construed. Thus, for an agent to have the power to do a certain act on behalf of the principal, the POA must expressly grant that power.
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October 31, 2014|
The Iowa Court of Appeals has agreed that a contractor did not obtain a mechanic’s lien because he did not “substantially complete” the work he agreed to perform in renovating the outside of an old brick building.
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October 23, 2014|
The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Iowa has issued another opinion clarifying the scope of the agricultural supply dealer’s lien under Iowa Code Chapter 570A. This time, the feed supplier prevailed.
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October 16, 2014|
The debtors were dairy farmers who owned Iowa farmland. In 2007, they hired the defendant to custom farm their property. In 2007, the debtors also received a loan from the plaintiff’s Wisconsin farm implement company. In exchange for the loan, the debtors gave the implement company a mortgage on some of their farmland.
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October 3, 2014|
A California Federal District Court judge has dismissed for lack of standing a challenge brought by major egg producing states to a California law that would dictate methods of production for all eggs sold in California.
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September 18, 2014|
A recent case from the Iowa Court of Appeals highlights the intricate interplay among procedural rules and should remind attorneys and parties that time deadlines for filing appeals allow no room for error. Finding that the rules were not properly followed in the case at hand, the Iowa Court of Appeals recently dismissed an appeal from a partial summary judgment as untimely.
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September 18, 2014|
In a case the court compared to the novel Bleak House because of the parties’ protracted underlying litigation history, the Iowa Court of Appeals determined that a will provision attempting to prevent beneficiaries from partitioning devis
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July 31, 2014|
In a case of major significance to estate and business planning for closely-held corporations in Iowa, particularly farm corporations, the Iowa Supreme Court found that a minority shareholder of a family farm “C” corporation could be “oppressed” (which could lead to a liquidation of the corporation) even though the controlling shareholders had not breached any fiduciary duties in the course of operating the corporation.