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SCHLEGEL v. OTTUMWA COURIER

Nos. 96-1040.

585 N.W.2d 217 (1998)

Richard R. SCHLEGEL, II and Jeri Schlegel, Appellants, v. The OTTUMWA COURIER, A DIVISION OF LEE ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED, and Russell R. Cunningham, Jr., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen D. Lombardi, of Lombardi Law Firm, Des Moines, for appellants.

Kasey W. Kincaid and Terri L. Combs of Faegre & Benson LLP, Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, LAVORATO, NEUMAN, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

LAVORATO, Justice.

A lawyer and his wife won substantial verdicts for compensatory damages against a newspaper publisher and editor-in-chief for incorrectly reporting that the lawyer had declared bankruptcy. In addition, the jury assessed punitive damages against the two defendants. The district court set aside the compensatory damage award as excessive and granted the defendants' motion for new trial. The court also granted the defendants' motion for judgment notwithstanding...

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