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ARENDS v. IOWA SELECT FARMS, L.P.

No. 95-1722.

556 N.W.2d 812 (1996)

Merlin ARENDS, Mary Arends, David Carlson, Leeann Carlson, Dorrel Doolittle, Barbara Doolittle, Brad L. Johnson, Donna Johnson, Donald P. Johnson, Jean Johnson, Robert D. Olson, Katherine M. Olson, Jesse B. Overland, Margaret Overland, Gary M. Puls, Paula J. Puls, Richard Thorson, Rebecca S. Thorson, James Thorson, Joyce Thorson, and John H.E. Tibben, Appellants, and Andrew G. Alfseike, Barbara Alfseike, Harold Bickelhaupt, Roxanne Bickelhaupt, Clyde Cole, Rebecca Cole, Dale Hughes, Andrew C. Miller, Lois Miller, Ann Pellegreno, Jack Riedemann, Dorothy Riedemann, John Rose, and Sheila Sue Rose, Plaintiffs, v. IOWA SELECT FARMS, L.P. and Iowa Select Farms, Inc., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Sayre of James L. Sayre, P.C., Des Moines, for appellants.

Steven P. Wandro, Douglas E. Gross, and Sean P. Moore of Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville, Schoenebaum & Walker, P.L.C., Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and CARTER, NEUMAN, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

The question here is whether twenty-one of thirty-five plaintiffs should be allowed to continue in this suit against a hog confinement facility. The merits of that suit are not at issue in the present appeal. The twenty-one plaintiffs-appellants challenge a trial court ruling that dismissed them from the suit for failing to secure the mandatory mediation release required by Iowa Code section 654B.8 (1995). We reverse and remand.

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