First National Bank in Lenox v. Heimke

SCHULTZ, Justice.

This interlocutory appeal involves the applicability of the recently enacted farm mediation statute, 1986 Iowa Acts chapter 1214, section 19 (codified at Iowa Code section 654A.6 (1987)), 1 to foreclosure actions filed prior to the effective date of the statute. The trial court ruled that the statute was inapplicable to such an action; we granted interlocutory appeal. While the appeal was pending, a mediation session was held, leading to an assertion by the appellee that the question is now moot. We hold that this question is within the public policy exception to the mootness…