2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 631 - SMALL CLAIMS
631.17 - PROHIBITED PRACTICES.

        631.17  PROHIBITED PRACTICES.
         1.  The district court, after due notice and hearing, may bar a
      person from appearing on the person's own behalf in any court
      governed by this chapter on a cause of action purchased by or
      assigned for collection to that person for any of the following:
         a.  Falsely holding oneself out as an attorney at law.
         b.  Repeatedly filing claims for costs allowed under section
      625.22 which have been found by the court to have been exaggerated or
      without merit.
         c.  A pattern of conduct in violation of article 7 of chapter
      537.
         2.  A person barred pursuant to subsection 1 shall not derive any
      benefit, directly or indirectly, from any case brought pursuant to
      this chapter within the purview of the order of bar issued by the
      district court.
         3.  The district court shall dismiss any pending case based on a
      cause of action purchased or assigned for collection brought on the
      person's own behalf by a person barred pursuant to subsection 1, and
      shall assess the costs against that person.
         4.  The district court shall dismiss any case subsequently brought
      directly or indirectly by a person subject to a bar pursuant to
      subsection 1 in violation of that subsection and shall assess all
      costs to that person, and the court shall assess a further civil fine
      of one hundred dollars against that person for each such case
      dismissed.
         5.  The district court shall retain jurisdiction over a person
      barred pursuant to subsection 1 and may punish violations of the
      court's order of bar as a matter of criminal contempt.  

         86 Acts, ch 1238, § 25; 87 Acts, ch 98, §6