{"id":"IA-057","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Iowa (federal district court order binding the State and its school districts)","state":"IA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa (Pratt, J.)","authority":"Fed. R. Civ. P. 65; ADA Title II, 42 U.S.C. § 12132; Rehabilitation Act § 504, 29 U.S.C. § 794; American Rescue Plan Act","instrument":"Order Granting Temporary Restraining Order, The Arc of Iowa v. Reynolds, No. 4:21-cv-00264 (S.D. Iowa Sept. 13, 2021), ECF No. 32","title":"Temporary restraining order enjoining the Governor and the Director of the Department of Education from enforcing Iowa Code § 280.31 (the school mask-policy ban) in Iowa public schools","dateIssued":"2021-09-13","effective":"2021-09-13","end":"Converted to a preliminary injunction October 8, 2021 (ECF No. 60); stayed and vacated by the Eighth Circuit (January 25, 2022; 24 F.4th 1162); case later dismissed for lack of standing (2024)","startDate":"2021-09-13","endDate":"2021-10-08","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["SCH","MASK","CRT"],"addressees":["Governor Reynolds","Director of the Iowa Department of Education","Iowa public school districts (freed to adopt mask requirements)"],"clause":"\u0027On May 20, 2021, Governor Reynolds signed into law an act banning local school districts from imposing mask mandates on school property unless otherwise required by law (H.F. 847, ch. 139, 2021 Iowa Act § 28, codified at Iowa Code § 280.31).... Plaintiffs... challenge section 280.31... The Court recognizes issuing a [temporary restraining order] is an extreme remedy, however, if the drastic increase in the number of pediatric COVID-19 cases since the start of the school year in Iowa is any indication of what is to come, such an extreme remedy is necessary to ensure that the children involved in this case are not irreparably harmed.\u0027 [Order: Defendants are enjoined from enforcing Iowa Code § 280.31 in Iowa public schools.]","enforcement":"Federal court injunction","functions":["IN schools: mask requirements reinstated from September 14-15, 2021 in Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Ames and other districts","WF workforce (school policies)"],"notes":"The instrument that changed Iowa\u0027s school masking regime in the last seventeen days of Q3 2021; the TRO recites the State\u0027s enforcement posture toward districts (referral \u0027to the State Board of Education\u0027).","sourceUrl":"https://clearinghouse-umich-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/doc/153758.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":255817,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"IA","url":"/library/IA-057","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/IA-057","citation":"United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa (Pratt, J.), Order Granting Temporary Restraining Order, The Arc of Iowa v. Reynolds, No. 4:21-cv-00264 (S.D. Iowa Sept. 13, 2021), ECF No. 32 (Ex. IA-057)","stateName":"Iowa","related":["IA-046"]}