The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled against a man suing the City of Cedar Falls after he injured a tendon on a diving board at The Falls, according to the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier. 49 year old Ron Myers was attempting a move off the diving board called a “can opener” in July of 2019 when he slipped and was injured. He sued the city, which operates The Falls, saying that the board did not have the proper slip resistant coating. The City claimed qualified immunity and that they had applied the coating but there was no rule as to how much of a coating was needed. The Iowa Court of Appeals determined in May of last year that governments could not use qualified immunity to defend against crimes and sided with Myers. On Friday the Iowa Supreme Court reversed that ruling saying that the legislature did not make violating swimming pool regulations a criminal offense. They also condemned the merger of the Iowa Department of Health and the Iowa Department of Human Services and the ramifications there in.
