No appeal lies from an order to punish for a contempt, but the proceedings may, in proper cases, be taken to a higher court for revision by certiorari.
Iowa Code § 665.11
Revision by certiorari
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Palmer College of Chiropractic v. Iowa District Court for Scott County (1987)
Most recently applied in Michael Terry v. Iowa District Court for Polk County (July 2018)
[C51, §1606; R60, §2696; C73, §3499; C97, §4468; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12550; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §665.11]
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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