Horsfield Materials, Inc. v. City of Dyersville

MANSFIELD, Justice.

In this case, we must decide whether an entity excluded from a city’s list of preap-proved material suppliers on a public construction project can obtain a declaratory judgment that such a preapproval process violated Iowa’s public bidding statute and constitutional guarantees of equal protection and due process. Additionally, we must decide whether the same entity should have been granted relief under Iowa’s open records law based on the city’s delay in responding to an open records request.

We conclude the supplier lacked standing to challenge the preapproval process under…