Des Moines Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency v. Branstad

SCHULTZ, Justice.

Plaintiffs, solid waste agencies and commissions created pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 28E1, commenced a declaratory judgment action against defendants, Governor Terry E. Branstad, Gretchen Tegeler, Interim Director of the Department of Management, and Gerald D. Bair, Director of the Department of Revenue and Finance. Plaintiffs alleged that legislation allowing the transfer of money from a groundwater fund to the State’s general fund was illegal. The district court sustained defendants’ motion for summary judgment, finding that plaintiffs lacked standing and that the…