Iowa Department of Transportation v. Soward

How courts have described this case

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

• defining “all costs” in Iowa Code section 6B.3B to mean taxable court costs; rejecting reimbursement for expert-witness fee above $150 per day
• noting courts are “bound by what the legislature said, not by what it should or might have said”
• legislature’s failure to “correct” this court’s interpretation of a statute is entitled to considerable weight
• “[I]f there is to be a change to section 6B.33 after forty years of acquiescence by the legislature, such change should come from that body.”
• legislature’s failure to “correct” this court’s interpretation of a statute is entitled to considerable weight
• legislative inaction in response to this court’s interpretation of a statute given considerable weight

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).