Iowa State University has lost an appeal in a federal free speech lawsuit that affirms student rights regardless of political viewpoint. Students Erin Furleigh and Paul Gerlich filed a lawsuit in July 2014, accusing Iowa State University discriminated against a student group because it advocated legalizing marijuana.
Category: Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Hope native first black chief judge on 8th circuit court
A Hope, Ark., native is to become the first black chief judge of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Lavenski Smith, now of Little Rock, is to become chief judge of the St. Louis-based on March 11. He succeeds Judge William Jay Riley, whose seven-year term as chief judge is expiring.
John Goodson To Defend Himself at Circuit Court of Appeals
Texarkana class-action attorney John Goodson will get his day before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 7. On that day, Goodson and four other attorneys who were found to have abused the court system by manipulating a controversial class-action case will argue that they shouldn’t have been punished.
Appeals court: College’s drug tests of all students illegal
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated a judge’s 2013 ruling that a central Missouri technical college’s mandatory drug testing policy is unconstitutional when applied to all students. The full 8th U.S. District Court of Appeals, in a 9-2 ruling, sided with the American Civil Liberties Union in reversing an earlier decision by a three-judge panel of the same St. Louis-based court.