MITCHELL v. CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS

No. 18-0124.

926 N.W.2d 222 (2019)

Jerime Eron MITCHELL and Bracken Ann Mitchell, Appellees, v. CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, and Officer Lucas Jones, Individually and in His Official Capacity, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed April 5, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilford H. Stone and Gregory T. Usher of Lynch Dallas, P.C., Cedar Rapids, and Elizabeth D. Jacobi , City Attorney's Office, Cedar Rapids, for appellants.

Laura M. Schultes , Pressley Henningsen , and Emily Anderson of RSH Legal, P.C., Cedar Rapids, and Larry R. Rogers Jr. of Powers, Rogers & Smith, LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for appellees.


In this interlocutory appeal, we revisit the interplay between our civil discovery rules and a confidentiality provision in the state Freedom of Information Act, Iowa Code section 22.7(5) (2018), to determine whether the district court abused its discretion by compelling the defendants to produce police investigative reports without...

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