Mason v. Vision Iowa Board

TERNUS, Justice.

The appellees, Timothy Mason, Harlan Dettman, and Ronald Klienow, brought this action against the appellants, Vision Iowa Board of the State of Iowa and its negotiating committee for the Marquette-McGregor Legacy Project, alleging the negotiating committee violated Iowa’s open meetings law, Iowa Code chapter 21 (2003). The district court granted sum mary judgment to the defendants, ruling the negotiating committee was not a “governmental body” subject to chapter 21, and even if it was a governmental body, it did not hold a “meeting” within the meaning of chapter 21. Because we…