Lewis Investments, Inc. v. City of Iowa City

TERNUS, Justice.

Plaintiff, Lewis Investments, Inc., was granted permission to bring this interlocutory appeal from the district court’s denial of the plaintiffs motion for temporary injunction. The temporary injunction was sought to maintain the status quo while the plaintiff pursued its primary claim, an equitable action seeking a permanent injunction against the condemnation of its property as a public nuisance by the defendant, City of Iowa City, Iowa. See Iowa Code § 364.12A (2003) (allowing city to condemn a residential building to rehabilitate or demolish a public nuisance). The…