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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 2014
Page
9
The 2013 2014 term featured rulings on political disputes including allowing a defamation suit against Gov. Terry Branstad and staff to proceed, overturning a prior verdict against a senator, and ruling a second drunken driving conviction does not bar a state senate candidacy.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that mandatory minimum terms for juveniles are unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment in State v. Andre Jerome Lyle Jr. The court also reversed in State v. Justin Dean Short, finding probation status did not authorize warrantless searches and noting Iowa's semicolon differs from the federal Fourth Amendment. A separate class action by four teen African-Americans claiming state employment discrimination was denied.
The piece cites Woodrow Wilson on how history is shaped by visible and hidden forces and urges forward-looking narration. It then covers the 2010 Iowa defamation case involving Rick Bertrand and Rick Mullin over an attack ad linking Bertrand to a Japanese pharmaceutical firm.
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