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Here is a list of major FOIA court decisions and their affect on the Iowa Open Records Law.
(The cases are listed alphabetically. To order them by year please click the icon below the Year heading)

Article Year Precedent
City of Dubuque v. Telegraph Herald Inc. 1980
City of Sioux City v. Greater Sioux City Press Club 1988
Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. v. Osmundson 1976
Dobrovolny v. Reinhardt 1970 This case established that failure to comply with the Iowa Open Meetings Law did not result in invalidating the decisions of the guilty public agency.
Iowa Civil Rights Commission v. City of Des Moines 1981
Linder v. Eckard 1967
Northeast Council on Substance Abuse Inc. v. Iowa Dept. of Public Health, Div. of Substance Abuse 1994