Legal Opinion
Scully v. Iowa District Court for Polk County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided July 22, 1992No. 91-1176PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SNELL, Justice.
Plaintiff, Michael Scully, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in this court pursuant to Iowa Rule of Appellate Procedure 301 and requested a stay of execution of a Polk County district court order. We granted the writ and issued an order temporarily staying the district court order pending further order of this court. Scully challenges a district court order sentencing him to thirty days in the Polk County Jail for his contemptuous failure to comply with a decree of dissolution of marriage, which required him to discharge certain joint marital debts. Scully contends that…
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- Rose v. Gedeon (In Re Gedeon)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Colorado · 1983
- Amro v. Iowa District Court for Story CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1988
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