DISCLAIMER:  Any unofficial case summaries below are prepared by the clerk's office
                        as a courtesy to the reader. They are not part of the opinion of the court.

111374P.pdf   04/09/2012  Steven Carlson  v.  Justice David Wiggins
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1374
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Civil Case - Constitutional law. Iowa's method of electing
   attorney members to State Judicial Nominating Commission does not 
   violate the Equal Protection Clause. The Commission does not exercise 
   general governmental powers; it disproportionately affects a definable 
   group of constituents whose interests in a fair and impartial judiciary
   are different in nature and in scope from the interests of the general 
   public. Thus the Commission is a special limited purpose entity
   and the system of election for attorneys members need only be rationally 
   related to Iowa's legitimate interests. System bears a rational relationship
   to legitimate interest in selecting most qualified judges.