Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Reuben Andrew Neff

Summary

The court held that Neff violated the professional-conduct rule prohibiting sexual harassment in the practice of law because his workplace comments, considered cumulatively, objectively interfered with and caused harm in the workplace. It rejected both his as-applied and facial-overbreadth First Amendment challenges, concluding that discipline for speech-based harassment requires objective workplace harm beyond mere offense and that the rule has a broad legitimate sweep. The court reduced the recommended sixty-day suspension to a public reprimand. No separate opinions were filed.