J. Randolph Evans has defended two speakers of the U.S. House from claims they engaged in unethical conduct. Now Evans is in a battle to undo a Philadelphia judge’s harsh sanction that accused him of “racial pandering” and stripped him of permission to appear before the Pennsylvania court.
Judge Howland W. Abramson of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas rescinded permission for Evans to appear pro hac vice in the Philadelphia court five days after Evans lost a bitterly fought insurance trial before Abramson last year. Abramson explained in his order that Evans “closing argument manifested a lack of familiarity with the decorum, candor and fairness expected of attorneys practicing in a Pennsylvania courtroom.”
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