Brody v. Ruby

How courts have described this case

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• noting slight majority of jurisdictions did not impose the special-injury requirement but finding “no persuasive reason” to change course
• noting slight majority of jurisdictions did not impose the special-injury requirement but finding \no persuasive reason\ to change course
• federal interpretations of federal rule of civil procedure 56, are persuasive in considering Iowa Rule of Civil Procedure 237
• “Plaintiff does not affirmatively allege improper use of original notice or other process in instituting the malpractice action.”
• “We hold the Iowa Code of Professional Responsibility for Lawyers furnishes no basis for a private cause of action for negligence .... ”
• “abandonment of the privity requirement would place a potentially unlimited burden on lawyers”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).