Leonard Gregory, Dee J. Radeke, Sean O'Geary, Jerry Newell, John Hrbek, Chad Welsh, Clarence Fenton, Jack Hays, and…

Summary

The court affirmed the district court’s judgment upholding Iowa’s restrictions on incarcerated individuals’ access to publications featuring nudity. It held that the Turner reasonableness framework, rather than strict scrutiny or traditional rational-basis review, governs both the federal and Iowa constitutional claims, and that the trial record established a reasonable relationship between the restrictions and institutional safety. The court also held that admitting the State’s late-disclosed expert was not an abuse of discretion and rejected the additional constitutional claims that were inadequately supported.