SHANNON BY SHANNON v. Hansen

ANDREASEN, Justice.

In a civil dramshop action, the plaintiff made application for release of confidential information and also served the chief of the Iowa Department of Public Safety, Iowa State Patrol Division, a subpoena duces tecum for production of written statements of witnesses taken in the course of an accident investigation. The State of Iowa filed a motion for a protective order. It claimed the statements were protected from disclosure. The application and motion were submitted to the district court. The State appeals from the court’s failure to grant its motion. While the appeal…