Ames Administrative Law Lawyer, Iowa, page 2

... violation of public policy. Primarily, we must decide whether an administrative regulation may be a source of public policy to restrict the rights of an employer in this state to discharge an at-will employee. We also consider whether ...

... is to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its ...

... The district court dismissed George's petition with prejudice on the grounds that "the final adjudicatory decision of an administrative agency is entitled to res judicata effect as if it were the judgment of a court." The district court declined to rule on whether the statutory remedies ...