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SUPREME COURT BD. OF ETHICS v. D.J.I.

No. 95-1801.

545 N.W.2d 866 (1996)

IOWA SUPREME COURT BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND CONDUCT, Appellee, v. D.J.I., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing April 17, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark McCormick of Belin Harris Lamson McCormick, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Norman G. Bastemeyer and Charles L. Harrington, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LAVORATO, NEUMAN, SNELL, and TERNUS, JJ.

McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

In this attorney disciplinary matter, we must determine whether our grievance commission correctly ruled that amended Iowa supreme court rule 118.7 can be used to invoke issue preclusion, concerning proof of the charges in the present disciplinary case, based on a prior district court civil judgment against respondent attorney. The commission ruled that it can be so used. On interlocutory appeal, we affirm.

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