STATE EX REL. MILLER v. MIDWEST PORK, L.C.

No. 99-0348.

625 N.W.2d 694 (2001)

STATE of Iowa ex rel., Thomas J. MILLER, Attorney General of Iowa, Appellant, v. MIDWEST PORK, L.C., Peter DeCoster, Austin J. DeCoster d/b/a DeCoster Farms of Iowa and Iowa Ag-Construction Company, Inc., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 25, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Julie F. Pottorff, Deputy Attorney General, and David R. Sheridan, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Thomas D. Hanson and Clark G. McDermott of Hanson, Bjork & Russell, L.L.P., Des Moines, for appellees Midwest Pork and Peter DeCoster.

Jan M. Mohrfeld and William Sidney Smith of Smith, Schneider, Stiles, Hudson, Serangeli, Mallaney & Shindler, P.C., Des Moines, for appellees Austin DeCoster, DeCoster Farms, and Iowa Ag-Construction.

Considered en banc.


TERNUS, Justice.

This action was brought by the appellant, State of Iowa, to enjoin the defendants/appellees from taking actions in violation of Iowa Code section 455B.202(2)(a) (Supp.1997), which prohibits persons involved in pending environmental litigation concerning confinement feeding operations from constructing or expanding such facilities. The State alleged that one of the defendants, Austin DeCoster d/b/a DeCoster Farms of Iowa was embroiled in three...

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