WILSON & CO., INC. v. OXBERGER

No. 2-57679.

252 N.W.2d 687 (1977)

WILSON & CO., INC., a Delaware Corporation, and Frank Harvey, Appellants, v. The Honorable Leo OXBERGER, Judge of the 5th Judicial District of Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 20, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson, Throckmorton, Parker, Mannheimer & Raife, Des Moines, for appellants.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Roxanne Barton Conlin, and Thomas D. McGrane, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

Amicus Curiae brief filed by Iowa Manufacturers Ass'n represented by Rogers & Phillips, Des Moines.

Heard by MOORE, C. J., and MASON, RAWLINGS, LeGRAND and UHLENHOPP, JJ.


LeGRAND, Justice.

This certiorari action was brought to test the authority of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission (Commission) to issue subpoenas duces tecum under § 601A.5, The Code, 1973, as amended by Chapter 1254, § 1, 65th G.A. (S.F. 1265), effective July 1, 1974. We sustain the writ.

The Iowa Civil Rights Commission was created by the Iowa Civil Rights Act of 1965. Chapter 601A, The Code. It consists of seven members appointed by the governor...

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