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FIELDS v. IOWA DIST. COURT FOR POLK CTY.

No. 89-1607.

468 N.W.2d 38 (1991)

Kim Ahern FIELDS, Plaintiff, v. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR POLK COUNTY, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

As Amended May 2, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kasey W. Kincaid of Faegre & Benson, Des Moines, for plaintiff.

David S. Wiggins of Marcucci, Wiggins & Anderson, P.C., West Des Moines, for defendant.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

Sanctions were imposed after a medical malpractice suit was dismissed. The trial court determined that the plaintiff's attorney did not file the suit in good faith after reasonable inquiry and thus ran afoul the burdens of Iowa Rule of Civil Procedure 80(a).1

In May 1986 Margaret J. Darrah, the original tort plaintiff, first consulted Kim Fields, a Des Moines attorney, about her deformed hand. Darrah ascribed responsibility...

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