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DES MOINES REGISTER v. DWYER

No. 94-901.

542 N.W.2d 491 (1996)

DES MOINES REGISTER AND TRIBUNE COMPANY and Iowa Freedom of Information Council, Appellants, v. John F. DWYER and Jerry Gamble, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 17, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Giudicessi and K.J. Walker of Faegre & Benson, Des Moines, for appellants.

Brent R. Appel and David S. Steward of Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C., Des Moines, for appellee Dwyer.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Julie Pottorff, Deputy Attorney General, and Grant R. Dugdale, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee Gamble.

Considered en banc.

SNELL, Justice.

In this case, we are faced with the issue of whether the Iowa Senate's policy on release of certain long distance phone records falls within its constitutionally-granted power to determine its own rules of proceedings. The Des Moines Register sought access to detailed phone records kept by the senate and the Department of General Services and sought a declaratory judgment when the senate and general services refused to release the records at issue...

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