Court Rebuffs Iowa State University President, Reinstates Player

By Christian Dennie, of Barlow, Garsek & Simon LLP   A state court judge in Iowa has stayed the decision of the president of Iowa State University (ISU) to remove a student athlete from the men’s basketball team, who had been charged with sexual abuse in the second degree as a result of an alleged incident that occurred in May 2012.   The decision was subsequently appealed by the university, but the Iowa Supreme Court declined to intervene.   Yempabou Palo (Palo) was the central