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47of74

(18,470 posts) Wed Jun 1, 2016, 12:51 PM Jun 2016

Five regents sued over meetings with U Iowa leader [View all]

Yeah, this is going on now.

A lawsuit accuses five members of the Board of Regents of meeting illegally with Bruce Harreld last summer before hiring him as University of Iowa president.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday by a retired university administrator alleges the regents violated the Iowa Open Meetings Act. It asks a judge to void Harreld's hiring, to award damages and to enter an injunction punishing regents with civil contempt for future violations.

Harreld met with four regents on July 30 at Summit Agricultural Group in Ames, the business owned by Board President Bruce Rastetter.

Rastetter has said he didn't attend the meetings. Harreld has said he requested the meetings to learn more about the job.

The board claims there wasn't a majority of the members present at these meetings.

I'm not up on the Iowa open meetings law. What constitutes a majority? Simple? Looks like this might be coming around to bite them in the ass if it's simple majority.

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Five regents sued over meetings with U Iowa leader [View all] 47of74 Jun 2016 OP

Hope to hell this goes somewhere. Thanks for the link. emulatorloo Jun 2016 #1

I don't hold out a lot of hope for this but progressoid Jun 2016 #2

Even if they don't win the suit, maybe it will scare them into Cairycat Jun 2016 #3

Sure looks like they went out of their way to avoid anyone else being there. rurallib Jun 2016 #4