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Iowa claims TikTok violates the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act by misrepresenting the frequency of profanity, sexual content and nudity available to teenage users.

Iowa’s statute criminalizing reentry by a previously deported noncitizen “violates the principle that the removal process is entrusted to the discretion of the Federal Government,” the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held.

General contractors argue the regulation creates excessive penalties and burdens, leaving them to pay subcontractors' wages and benefits if every letter of the law isn't followed.

The former chief may be the only police officer ever to be convicted by the federal government of illegally possessing a machine gun, his attorney told the three-judge panel.

Reynolds has led state government during a period of Republican domination, and she signed into law one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws.

In two federal lawsuits, book publishers and LGBTQ+ advocates said the Iowa law violates the First Amendment rights of students as well as authors.

The governor said Iowa’s Civil Rights Act “blurred the biological line between the sexes” and “forced Iowa taxpayers to pay for gender reassignment surgeries. That is unacceptable to me.”

The ACLU of Iowa opposed the change, saying Iowa would be the first and only state in the U.S. to repeal broad legislation guaranteeing trans people's rights.

“A single sentence mentions sex, and the book goes off the shelves,” attorney for publisher Penguin Random House told a federal judge Thursday.

Devin Nunes argued the Esquire article was a hit piece that damaged his reputation, and he sought to punish the magazine’s publisher to the tune of $77 million.