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CITIZENS' AIDE/OMBUDSMAN v. EDWARDS

No. 11-1452.

825 N.W.2d 8 (2012)

OFFICE OF CITIZENS' AIDE/OMBUDSMAN, Appellee, v. Deb EDWARDS and Iowa Department of Corrections, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and William A. Hill , Assistant Attorney General, for appellants.

Charles Andrew Teas , Des Moines, for appellee.

WATERMAN, Justice.

The fighting issue in this appeal is whether an administrative law judge (ALJ) may assert the mental-process privilege to limit her deposition testimony in an investigation by the Office of Citizens' Aide/Ombudsman (Ombudsman) into her ruling on a prison disciplinary matter. Deb Edwards, an independent ALJ within the Iowa Department of Corrections (IDOC), presided over the hearing of an inmate charged with assaulting a corrections officer. Edwards...

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