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Goodell v. Humboldt County

Citations

  • 575 N.W.2d 486
  • 1998 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 37
  • 1998 WL 92658

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing the need for a high degree of legislative expression before this court will find subject-wide preemption
  • noting “[a] local ordinance ‘is not inconsistent with a state law unless it is irreconcilable with the state law’ ” (quoting Iowa Code § 331.301(4))
  • discussing preemption in the context of a county’s home rule authority
  • “Any attempt by a local government to add to those requirements would conflict with the state law, because the local law would in effect prohibit what the state law permits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Ternus, Carter, Neuman, Harris, Snell, McGiverin, Larson

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