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NIXON v. STATE

No. 03-1850.

704 N.W.2d 643 (2005)

Mary Irene NIXON, Kathryn L. Meacham, Tonya Dawn Tolbert, Personal Representative for the Estate of Phillip Spieker, Deceased, Russell D. Ehrhardt, Administrator of the Estate of Betty Romp, Deceased f/k/a Elizabeth Louis Ostert, Susan Dawson, Administrator of the Estate of Clarence E. Fifer, Deceased, and Hazel Potter Dornbush, Appellees, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied November 9, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Craig Kelinson, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Bruce Kempkes, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Curtis J. Krull of Roehrick, Krull & Blumberg, Des Moines, and Eric Borseth of Borseth, Siebrecht & Siebrecht, Altoona, for appellee Nixon.

Evan A. Douthit, Randall L. Rhodes, and Mary C. O'Connell of Douthit Frets Rouse & Gentile, L.L.C., Kansas City, Missouri, for Kathryn L. Meacham, Tonya Dawn Tolbert, Russell D. Ehrhardt, Susan Dawson and Hazel Potter Dornbush, appellees.

STREIT, Justice.

The King can do no wrong, but will he do right by our orphans?1 Over sixty-five years ago, a professor at the University of Iowa performed an experiment on children at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home testing a theory regarding the origins of stuttering in young children. The children did not find out they were actual participants in the study for seven decades.

When the children did find out, they sued the State...

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