SORCI v. IOWA DIST. COURT FOR POLK COUNTY

No. 03-0936.

671 N.W.2d 482 (2003)

Michael SORCI and the Youth Law Center, Plaintiffs, v. The IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR POLK COUNTY, Iowa, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 13, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee H. Gaudineer of Gaudineer, Comito & George, L.L.P., Des Moines, for plaintiffs.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Cristen C. Odell, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant.


STREIT, Justice.

The Youth Law Center, a non-profit organization which provides legal representation to children, challenges three administrative orders of the Chief Judge of the Fifth Judicial District. The administrative orders removed Youth Law Center (YLC) lawyers from hundreds of cases, on account of an alleged conflict of interest on the part of its (now former) executive director, Martha Johnson. We affirm the district court's removal of the YLC from cases...

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