Crippen v. City of Cedar Rapids

TERNUS, Justice.

The appellants/plaintiffs, Donald Crip-pen, Joan Crippen, and Barbara Maitland, operate a private recycling business under the name of HMR Home and Business Recyclers. (We will refer to the appellants collectively as “HMR”) The appel-lees/defendants, the City of Cedar Rapids and the City of Marion, implemented residential curbside recycling as a city service through their respective solid waste management departments. Appellee/defen-dant, Bluestem Solid Waste Agency, is a joint agency of the City of Cedar Rapids and Linn County; it participated in the promotion of the cities’…