An Iowa nursing home is challenging the state’s position that it unfairly evicted a resident from the facility for using marijuana.
In a lawsuit filed recently in Polk County District Court, Ankeny Health Care Enterprises, which operates the 91-resident Sunny View Care Center in Ankeny, says it evicted, or involuntary discharged, a resident of the home earlier this year.
The company alleges that on Jan. 16, 2026, the woman used marijuana at the care center and had no legal basis to possess or use or the drug. When confronted, the lawsuit contends, the woman admitted to the illicit drug use…