Madyun v. Iowa District Court for Linn County

NEUMAN, Justice.

We granted Naim Madyun’s petition for writ of certiorari to challenge the district court’s issuance of mittimus on a contempt order entered some months earlier. In our order granting the petition, we reserved ruling on a motion to dismiss the petition on timeliness grounds. We now conclude the petition was timely filed but is wholly unpersuasive on its merits. Accordingly, we annul the writ.

The facts giving rise to this controversy are regrettably common. They center on Madyun’s pattern of noncompliance with child support orders. Resolution is complicated, however, by an…