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Judge dismisses lawsuit by Sudanese man jailed for two years by ICE

on Fri, 07/10/2026 - 02:25   by Clark Kauffman

Iowa Capital Dispatch
July 8, 2026

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an Iowa immigration detainee who suffered “horrific abuse” in Sudan before being jailed in the United States for two years by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa by Mutasim Ibrahim Abdoulrahman Nour against ICE and the Muscatine County sheriff, sought Nour’s immediate release from the county jail.

In dismissing the case, Chief Judge Stephanie Rose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, ruled recently that while she “laments the horrific abuse he suffered in Sudan,” federal law and ICE policies cited by Nour do not offer him the legal refuge he now seeks.

After 23 months in ICE custody, Sudanese man seeks release from Muscatine County Jail

on Tue, 06/23/2026 - 00:45   by Clark Kauffman

Iowa Capital Dispatch
June 22, 2026

A judge has ordered the federal government to state why it has jailed, for almost two years, an immigration detainee now being held in the Muscatine County Jail.

A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa by Mutasim Ibrahim Abdoulrahman Nour, a citizen of Sudan, against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Muscatine County sheriff seeks Nour’s immediate release as well as a court order preventing him from being transferred to a detention facility outside of Iowa while the case is pending.

The lawsuit alleges Nour entered the United States on July 7, 2024, and was immediately apprehended by ICE and placed in federal custody at the Freeborn County Detention Center in Albert Lea, Minn. In December 2025, Nour was transferred without warning to the Muscatine County Jail, where he now remains, the lawsuit alleges.

Iowa groups sue EPA over contaminated water evaluations

on Tue, 05/19/2026 - 19:19   by Anonymous

by Kadin Luhmann, Iowa Capital Dispatch
May 18, 2026

Three environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to remove seven Iowa waterways from the state’s Impaired Waters List.

Food and Water Watch, the Iowa Environmental Council (IEC)  and the Environmental Law and Policy Center are asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa to order that the EPA relist the seven bodies of water, or require the EPA to issue a final determination.

The IEC said the EPA had previously determined that parts of the Cedar, Des Moines, Racoon, Iowa and South Skunk rivers were contaminated with dangerous nitrate levels months before the waters were removed from the agency’s list in July 2025.

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