MEDIACOM IOWA v. INC. CITY OF SPENCER

No. 02-0554.

682 N.W.2d 62 (2004)

MEDIACOM IOWA, L.L.C., Appellant, v. INCORPORATED CITY OF SPENCER, Iowa, and The Board of Trustees of The Spencer Municipal Utilities, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 16, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark McCormick and Margaret C. Callahan of Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn, P.C., Des Moines, Harold W. White of Fitzgibbons Law Firm, Estherville, and R. Bruce Beckner of Fleischman and Walsh, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Stephen F. Avery of Cornwall, Avery, Bjornstad & Scott, Spencer, Dick H. Montgomery, Spencer, and Ivan T. Webber of Ahlers & Cooney, P.C., Des Moines, for appellees.


LAVORATO, Chief Justice.

In this declaratory judgment proceeding, we granted a cable company interlocutory review of a district court order that partially denied the company's motion to compel discovery. The cable company sued a city and its utilities board for its actions in establishing a competing communications system. The company contends the district court abused its discretion in protecting from discovery information the court concluded constituted trade secrets...

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