[2] For over 20 years, Scott was the majority owner of the Sioux City Bandits, a team in the Champions Indoor Football (CIF) league.
[6] Scott quickly emerged as a fiscal conservative, casting the lone dissenting vote against the city's $46.5 million operating budget for fiscal year 1986-87, declaring that the council had failed its responsibility to make significant spending cuts.
In attempting to dodge these provisions by secretly meeting with retired Midwest Energy Company executive Frank Griffith across the river in Nebraska, the trio (along with a fourth council member, the late Cornelius "Connie" Bodine) had nevertheless run afoul of Iowa's restrictive open meeting requirements, the lawsuit charged.
[8] Scott and his colleagues were cleared of the charge in April 1989 when Judge Richard J. Vipond ruled that the conclave did not constitute a "meeting" according to Iowa code; the lawsuit was therefore dismissed with prejudice.
[10] However, Scott received the support of former Sioux City mayor Jim Wharton and many other local officials.