JUNKINS v. BRANSTAD

No. 86-1740.

421 N.W.2d 130 (1988)

Lowell JUNKINS, State Senator; Don Avenson, State Representative; C.W. (Bill) Hutchins and Joe Welsh, State Senators; Robert C. Arnould, John H. Connors and Richard W. Welden, State Representatives; Individually and in Their Representative Capacity as Members of the 71st General Assembly of Iowa, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Terry E. BRANSTAD, Governor of the State of Iowa in his Official Capacity, Defendant-Appellee, James L. Beeghly, Judge; Louis F. Beisser, Judge; Michael S. Walsh, Judge; J.C. Irvin, Judge; Arthur Gamble, Judge; Paul J. Kilburg, Judge; James E. Kelley, Judge; and R. David Fahey, Judge, Intervenors-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan L. Dudley of Murray, Davoren & Dudley, and Ann M. Ver Heul of Mumford, Schrage & Zurek, P.C., Des Moines, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert A. Van Vooren, Thomas J. Shields, and Thomas D. Waterman of Lane & Waterman, Davenport, and Barbara Brooker Burnett, Des Moines, for defendant-appellee.

John A. McClintock and David L. Brown of Hanson, McClintock & Riley, Des Moines, for intervenors-appellees.

Considered en banc.


SNELL, Justice.

On May 5, 1985, the Iowa Legislature passed Senate File 570, entitled

[a]n Act making corrections and other changes relating to court reorganization, court fees, court-imposed fines and costs and the suspension of motor vehicle licenses and the set-off of income tax refunds and rebates, administrative closures under chapter 601A, the ability to pay a criminal fine, the judicial retirement system, and other court procedures and making certain...

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