Picray v. City of Des Moines, Iowa

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• holding that jurisdiction in civil service appeal “is wholly statutory and depends for its existence upon substantial compliance by the appealing party with statu- tory prerequisites” (quoting Econ. Forms Corp. v. Potts, 259 N.W.2d 787, 788 (Iowa 1977))
• “The district court in this case did not have original jurisdiction; its jurisdiction in appeals ‘is wholly statutory and depends for its existence upon substantial compliance by the appealing party with statutory prerequisites.’” (citation omitted)
• “If the leg- islature had intended to require that the appeal be perfected only by completing service on the commission and filing with the clerk within the thirty-day time frame, it could have said so.”

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