Deborah E. McFadden, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Charles Walter McFadden, Jr. v. Department of Transportation, State of Iowa

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• emphasizing that our legal system prefers to resolve disputes on their merits, and dismissing an action for failure to exhaust administrative remedies does not resolve the case on the merits
• noting “[r]ules, especially those which fix jurisdictional matters, are . . . vital to the proper conduct of court business.”

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