Legal Opinion
Iowa Coal Mining Co. v. Monroe County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided October 23, 1996No. 95-198PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAVORATO, Justice.
The plaintiffs in this case are a coal mining company, its parent company, and the sole stockholder of the parent company. The defendant is the county in which the coal mining operation is located. The county passed a county-wide zoning ordinance that affected the use of two sites (Star 6 and Star 14) belonging to the coal mining company. The coal mining company intended to use the sites as a combined coal mining and landfill-ing operation. The county’s adoption of the ordinance led to a lawsuit between the parties that eventually came before our court on the county’s…
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