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BITNER v. OTTUMWA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST.

No. 95-135.

549 N.W.2d 295 (1996)

Dan BITNER, Appellant, v. OTTUMWA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Joe Scalzo, Max Miller, Firstar Bank Ottumwa a/k/a Firstar Bank Ottumwa, N.A., Kelly Smallwood, Estal & Associates, P.C., Gerald H. Estal, and Donald D. Kain, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 22, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter C. Riley of Tom Riley Law Firm, P.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Minor Barnes, Terry J. Abernathy and JoAnne M. Lilledahl of Pickens, Barnes & Abernathy, Cedar Rapids, and Richard J. Gaumer of Webber, Gaumer, Emanuel & Daily, P.C., Ottumwa, for appellees School District, Joe Scalzo and Max Miller.

Jerome M. Beaver of Kiple, Kiple, Denefe, Beaver & Gardner, Ottumwa, for appellees Firstar Bank and Kelly Smallwood.

Kasey W. Kincaid of Faegre & Benson Professional Limited Liability Partnership, Des Moines, for appellees Estal & Associates, Gerald H. Estal and Donald D. Kain.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, NEUMAN, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

ANDREASEN, Justice.

Dan Bitner, a former elementary principal in the Ottumwa Community School District, brought a defamation suit against: (1) the school district, its superintendent, Joe Scalzo, and its business manager, Max Miller (collectively referred to as school district); (2) Firstar Bank Ottumwa and its teller, Kelly Smallwood (collectively referred to as bank); and (3) Estal & Associates, P.C. and the firm's certified public accountants, Gerald H. Estal...

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