GIUDICESSI v. STATE

No. 13-2041.

868 N.W.2d 418 (2015)

Sonni M. GIUDICESSI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE of Iowa, Defendant-Appellant. and Sergio Paradiso, M.D., Ph.D., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

January 14, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and Anne Updegraff , Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Michael J. Carroll of Coppola, McConville, Coppola, Carroll, Hockenberg & Scalise, P.C., West Des Moines, and Kodi A. Brotherson of Becker & Brotherson Law Firm, Sac City, and David H. Goldman of Babich Goldman, P.C., Des Moines, for appellee.

Sergio Paradiso, Coralville, defendant pro se.

Heard by MULLINS, P.J., and BOWER and McDONALD, JJ.


The State of Iowa appeals the court's denial of its motion for summary judgment finding material issues exist concerning the liability of the State, under the doctrine of respondeat superior, for the sexual relationship between University of Iowa psychiatrist Dr. Sergio Paradiso and his former patient Sonni Giudicessi. Limiting our inquiry...

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