Tunis E. Den Hartog, Shirley Ann Schweertman, Leonard G. Lybbert, Mary Ellen Molinaro, William James Robert, and Mark D. Fisher v. City of Waterloo, Iowa

CADY, Chief Justice.

In this case, we'must decide if we should hold a municipality in contempt of a court order that required it to dispose of certain property only in compliance with Iowa Code section 306.23 (2014). The municipality promulgated notices that gave a development company preferential bidding on the property even though it was not a prior or adjacent landowner, gave that same development company a bid credit for the improvements it had already made to the property, described the land as delineated in the plat filed for the contested development, and used a backdated valuation.…