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IOWA BD. OF PROF. ETHICS & CONDUCT v. WANEK

No. 98-1423.

589 N.W.2d 265 (1999)

IOWA SUPREME COURT BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS & CONDUCT, Appellant, v. Jerrold A. WANEK, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing March 8, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mark McCormick of Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn, A P.C., Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered en banc.

NEUMAN, Justice.

Acting on questionable—if not plainly invalid—notice by ordinary mail, Iowa lawyer Jerrold Wanek secured $1.1 million judgments against the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Investor's Business Daily of Los Angeles (IBD). The judgments stemmed from sanctions imposed against the corporations in a discovery dispute. Wanek managed to tie up the Tribune's and IBD's bank accounts before...

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