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· 4/17/1996

Iowa Supreme Court Board of Professional Ethics & Conduct v. D.J.I.

Citations

  • 545 N.W.2d 866
  • 1996 WL 133270

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • barring an attorney from relitigat-ing the issues of fraud and misrepresentation, among other issues, in a disciplinary case under the doctrine of issue preclusion
  • barring an attorney from relitigating the issues of fraud and misrepresentation, among other issues, in a disciplinary case under the doctrine of issue preclusion
  • observing under the former version of rule 35.7(3), rule 118.7, that issue preclusion “may be used by either party in a lawyer discipline case”
  • holding our court rule, then rule 118.7, applies retroactively
  • “In deciding whether to apply issue preclusion in subsequent litigation, the focus is on what issues were actually decided in the prior litigation and what issues a party in subsequent litigation seeks to have precluded.”

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Judges: Megiverin, Lavorato, Neuman, Snell, Ternus

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