Godfrey v. State
| Docket Number | 19-1954 |
| Decision Date | 30 June 2021 |
The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court in favor of Plaintiff on his claims of sexual orientation discrimination and retaliation under the Iowa Civil Rights Act (ICRA), Iowa Code 216.1-.21, holding that Defendants were entitled to judgment as a matter of law with respect to all claims, notwithstanding any errors
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9 cases
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Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc. v. Reynolds ex rel. State
...in part and dissenting in part); see also Wagner v. State , 952 N.W.2d 843, 858 (Iowa 2020) (describing the Chief Justice's opinion in Godfrey as "dispositive").3 It may be worth noting that in 2021, both the house and the senate approved a constitutional amendment as follows: "[W]e the peo......
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Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc. v. Reynolds ex rel. State
...a case that recognized a direct cause of action for damages under the Iowa Constitution. 990 N.W.2d 289, 307 (Iowa 2023). We noted that Godfrey was legally wrong and had complicated our Id. at 298, 304. We found that it had also become a vehicle for asserting either meritless claims of cons......
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State v. Koat
..."[t]he standard of relevance for the admission of evidence generally is not a high bar." Godfrey v. State , 962 N.W.2d 84, 119 (Iowa 2021) (Appel, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). "Evidence is relevant if ... [i]t has any tendency to make a fact more or less probable than it ......
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