Messamaker v. Iowa Department of Human Services

CARTER, Justice.

The Iowa Department of Human Services, which is the local administrator of a federal disaster relief and emergency assistance program (FEMA program), appeals from an order reversing its denial of disaster relief benefits to Ron Messamaker, a victim of the 1993 flooding disaster. The district court concluded that the agency had improperly denied the applicant’s request for a contested ease adjudication in the determination of his application. It remanded the case to the agency for the implementation of that procedure. Because we do not agree that Messamaker was entitled to a…