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 chapter 537, article 7.
- 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 penalty 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; 2011 Acts, ch 25, §72; 2012 Acts, ch 1021, §107