Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. John D. Hedgecoth

How courts have described this case

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• accepting an attorney’s voluntary commitment not to undertake appellate cases in lieu of an express practice limitation
• noting the attorney’s neglect “did not cause any demonstrable financial or other harm” and considering lack of harm a mitigating factor (emphasis added)
• \Knowing disobedience occurs when noncompliance occurs notwithstanding the attorney's actual knowledge of the court order.\
• “[W]e are satisfied that Hedgecoth’s voluntary commitment to refrain from representing clients on appeal will provide adequate assurance against recurrence . . . .”
• im- posing a three-month suspension for neglecting multiple matters that neither resulted in client harm nor was accompanied by misrepresentations or other misconduct
• noting discovery responses were not in final form

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).