Members of the Iowa Supreme Court will visit area high schools in southwest Iowa, to meet with students and discuss the role of the courts. On Wednesday, March 12th, the justices will visit Clarinda High School, Shenandoah High School, Red Oak High School, Atlantic High School, and Southwest Valley High School in Corning.

In addition to the school visits, the supreme court will hold a special session in Clarinda on Tuesday evening March 11th. During the special session, the court will hear oral arguments in two cases in the Clarinda High School auditorium, 100 North Cardinal Drive. The session begins at 7-p.m. As always, oral arguments are open to the public. A public reception with the justices, sponsored by the Clarinda Chamber of Commerce, will follow the oral arguments in the high school commons.

The Iowa Supreme Court will hear lawyers argue in two cases:

State of Iowa v. Dustin Dean Short

On further review, the Iowa Supreme Court must determine whether law enforcement’s warrantless, but limited-in-scope search of the residence of defendant, who was on probation at the time and had executed a probation agreement, was valid under Iowa’s constitutional search and seizure provision. In State v. Ochoa (2010), the supreme court concluded that a warrantless, suspicionless search of a parolee in his motel room by a general law enforcement officer violated article I, section 8 of the Iowa Constitution.

In the Matter of the Guardianship and Conservatorship of Kennedy

The Iowa Code provides that a guardian must receive court approval to arrange for a ward’s nonemergency medical procedure. In this case, the Guardian Ad Litem of the developmentally delayed adult ward asks the Iowa Supreme Court to determine whether a vasectomy is a major elective surgery requiring the ward’s guardian to first obtain court approval before the procedure.

Here is the schedule to the high school visits on March 12th:

Chief Justice Mark Cady will visit Shenandoah High School at 8:30 a.m.

Justice David Wiggins will visit Red Oak High School at 9:30 a.m.

Justice Thomas Waterman will visit Southwest Valley High School at 10:00 a.m.

Justice Bruce Zager will visit Clarinda High School at 10:30 a.m.

Justice Daryl Hecht will visit Atlantic High School at 12:40 p.m.