SCHAFFER v. ROGERS

No. 83-1287.

362 N.W.2d 552 (1985)

Calvin SCHAFFER, James Sutherlin, and Mary L. Sutherlin, Appellees, v. Larry ROGERS, Stanley Sherwood and City of Des Moines, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.M. Sullivan, Asst. City Atty., Des Moines, for appellants.

Bernard J. Connolly, Jr., and Thomas M. Werner, Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and McGIVERIN, LARSON, SCHULTZ, and WOLLE, JJ.


McGIVERIN, Justice.

Defendants Larry Rogers, Stanley Sherwood, and the City of Des Moines appeal with our permission in a civil tort action from an interlocutory order directing the production, for discovery purposes, of documents prepared by the Internal Affairs Unit of the Des Moines police department. We reverse.

On appeal, defendants contend that the materials that plaintiffs seek to discover are within the...

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