Friday, May 20, 2016

Go drink coffee at a CLE for 3 hours a year - the punishment for misconduct of U.S. Attorney's office

If a civil rights attorney sues a government official, there is an increasing chance that:

(1) the case will be dismissed on judge-invented (and thus illegal under Article III) doctrine or rule;
(2) sanctions and attorney fees - thousands of dollars - will be imposed upon the civil rights attorney.

Thousands of dollars in sanctions.

Thousands of dollars in attorney fees.

And that is - simply because in pleadings, presumed to be true before discovery started, an attorney raised constitutional arguments.

Lying to court is a crime.

Attorneys get disbarred for that.

But, if attorneys who are lying to court are working for the federal government, 


  • they are not sanctioned with monetary sanctions;
  • they are not ordered to pay attorney fees of the opposing party;
  • they are not disbarred

They are told to have 3 hours of ethical training a year.

If you are an attorney working for the government - go drink coffee (or whatever you can smuggle in their to sit and sip) at a free CLE course, free for you as a governmental employee.  

And laugh in the face of taxpayers funding your galore.





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