Opinion ID: 2112190
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Heading: Motion for Leave to Expand the Record.

Text: Iowa Code section 17A.19(7), provides in pertinent part: Before the date set for hearing a petition for judicial review of agency action in a contested case, application may be made to the court for leave to present evidence in addition to that found in the record of the case. If it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the additional evidence is material and that there were good reasons for failure to present it in the contested case proceeding before the agency, the court may order that additional evidence may be taken before the agency upon conditions determined by the court. Fisher filed the motion for leave to expand the record based on constitutional due process grounds. The constitutional issues were not raised before the board in a request for rehearing. There was no showing the additional evidence was material to the issues before the board or that there was good reason for the failure to present it in the contested case proceeding before the agency. The statutory grounds for granting the motion for leave to expand the record have not been met. It was, therefore, error for the district court to grant the motion.