Court of Appeals Opinions

New opinions from the Court of Appeals of Iowa. I didn’t find anything too earth-shattering, but the opinions are located here.

I did want to say congratulations to Court of Appeals Judge and former 6th District Judge Amanda Potterfield. I noticed her name as one of the considering judges in a few of the opinions. I also noticed that one of the orders from her previously life as a district court judge was affirmed by the court of appeals.

Finally, a good friend of mine from law school was on the losing end of an opinion filed today. It was her first appeal, which is more than I’ve done. She says that they are seeking further review. Interesting opinion and, according to her, there were multiple arguments made at trial concerning the propriety of the modification action. We’ll see what happens. Good luck, Erika.

Iowa Supreme Court mails it in

Two new opinions today. It must be vacation time. The opinions are identical per curiam opinions concerning civil commitment proceedings of sexually violaent predators. The Court disposed of all of their identical arguments in opinions decided while these two were pending. Maybe there will be more to look at next week.

Huzzah!!

It appears that all is well with the technology at NPET. Or, at least as well as it can be. I can actually send and receive messages now. It’s a great improvement. That also means that I’m able to receive the court schedules again. So, enjoy.

No beer and no tv make Erek something something . . .

So it’s not really a lack beer and tv I’m lamenting today. It’s my lack of email access. Actually, my partial lack of email access. We moved back into our Cedar Rapids office on Thursday. They unhooked our server to move it at around 7:15 am that morning. By noon, we were supposed to have most of our function back. Apparently, nobody thought to test everything. As it turns out, I can send email, but I can’t receive it. It really is not a good situation for me, or anyone else in our firm, for that matter.

As a result of the failure of our email system, I haven’t been getting the schedules and can’t post them. Sorry. I’m hoping we’ll be back  up and running within the next day or so.