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POLK COUNTY SHERIFF v. IOWA DIST. COURT

No. 99-219.

594 N.W.2d 421 (1999)

POLK COUNTY SHERIFF, Plaintiff, v. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR POLK COUNTY, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 28, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and Eliza Ovrom and Michael B. O'Meara, Assistant County Attorneys, for plaintiff.

Thomas J. Berg of Elverson, Vasey & Peterson, L.L.P., Des Moines, for defendant.

David Vestal, Des Moines, for amicus curiae Iowa State Sheriffs and Deputies Association.

Considered en banc.

LAVORATO, Justice.

This is a certiorari action to our court brought by the sheriff of Polk County seeking to reverse a district court decision denying the sheriff's application to compel jail inmate Jerrell Brown to submit to kidney dialysis treatment. We must decide whether the district court correctly found that Brown's liberty interest to refuse such treatment outweighs the State's countervailing interests to preserve life, prevent suicide, protect the interests...

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