Mealey's (April 6, 2018, 2:25 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A federal judge in Iowa did not err when awarding summary judgment to a city and telecommunications company, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled April 4, finding that the company did not need to obtain a franchise agreement with the city before building a fiber-optic network (MCC Iowa LLC v. City of Iowa City, et al., No. 16-3696, 8th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 8501)....