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BAUER v. BRINKMAN

No. 20-0563.

958 N.W.2d 194 (2021)

Richard BAUER, Individually and as Trustee for the Kendall R. Bauer Trust, Appellant, v. Bradley R. BRINKMAN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed April 16, 2021.

Amended April 21, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry K. Widdison , Sioux City, for appellant.

Ryland Deinert and Rene Charles Lapierre of Klass Law Firm, L.L.P., Sioux City, for appellee.

Shefali Aurora of the ACLU of Iowa, Des Moines, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa.

Christensen, C.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined.

In this case, the plaintiff, a manager of an apartment building in small-town Sloan, Iowa, brought a defamation action against another Sloan resident arising from his social media post in which he called the plaintiff a slumlord. The plaintiff alleged the defendant asserted a false statement of fact that he is an unscrupulous...

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