Iowa Civil Rights Commission v. City of Des Moines/Personnel Department

SCHULTZ, Justice.

This interlocutory appeal arose from a judicial proceeding to enforce an administrative subpoena duces tecum issued by the plaintiff, Iowa Civil Rights Commission. The defendant, City of Des Moines, refused to produce personnel and medical records of certain past and present employees as ordered by the subpoena. At the enforcement proceeding the City alleged that the records were confidential and not subject to the Commission’s subpoena power. The trial court, by oral direction, provided a procedure to limit the subpoena of medical records to the files of those employees that…