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Iowa Secretary of Labor has joined private sector creditors and other government agencies in seeking to move bankruptcy proceedings for Agriprocessors, the beleauguered kosher meatpacking firm, from New York to Iowa, but the company is seeking to delay court deliberations about where the chapter 11 bankruptcy case should be heard.

A petition requesting the U.S. Supreme Court review the convictions and sentences of an Iowa woman in connection with five 1993 drug-related murders has been denied by the nation’s highest court.

The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Postville meatpacking plant Agriprocessors is slowly making its way through the New York courts. Creditors, primarily located in the Midwest, have filed motions with the court to move the proceedings from the east coast to Iowa, but the court is not expected to make a ruling on that motion [...]

An Iowa Supreme Court decision released Friday has a very personal significance for Iowa resident Bob Krause. He is a brother-in-law of Heidi Anfinson, a Des Moines woman convicted of second-degree murder in the drowning death of her infant son who received court approval for a new trial. Because of Heidi and the loss of his nephew Jacob, Krause has been doing his part to educate the public on the dangers of postpartum depression.

An Iowa Supreme Court decision handed down today confirms that legal counsel for Heidi Anfinson was ineffective for not presenting evidence and investigating Anfinson’s claims of postpartum depression.

A former supervisor at Agriprocessors, the Postville meatpacking plant that was the location of the nation’s largest single-site immigration raid, accepted a deal and pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday afternoon.

Two supervisors charged with encouraging workers to obtain and use fraudulent documents in order to continue employment at Agriprocessors in Postville pleaded “not guilty” in federal court.

An Iowa blogger who claimed to use activism and education to promote “a more just and life-affirming culture of sexuality” for women, especially those women who have been victims of sexual violence, has pleaded guilty to photographing and filming a college student’s breasts without her consent.
Kyle D. Payne, 22 of Ida Grove, presented his guilty [...]

The Iowa Supreme Court, in an opinion handed down this morning in a Warren County case, granted the state a little more wiggle room in terms of the requirements to commit an individual as a sexually violent predator.

Was the opinion issued Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court an expansion or a clarification of the state’s existing residency requirements for sex offenders? At the end of the day, according to some members of law enforcement, it doesn’t matter one way or another.