U.S. Judge Demands Resignation of Lawyer Who Wrote Profanity-Laced Emails
"You just trashed your profession," U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II told attorney Christopher Hook at a hearing Monday, before asking him to resign. At issue were emails Hook wrote to his opposing counsel in an insurance dispute, telling them to "eat a bowl of dicks" and "pay up fuckface."
December 16, 2019 at 06:32 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The Recorder
An angry federal judge demanded that a Los Angeles lawyer resign from the legal profession after his profanity-laced emails got national attention.
"You just trashed your profession," U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II of the Central District of California told Christopher Hook at a hearing Monday. At issue were about 100 emails filled with profane and discriminatory remarks that Hook wrote to opposing counsel, telling them, among other things, to "eat a bowl of dicks" and "pay up fuckface."
Wright, a former deputy sheriff in Los Angeles County and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, told Hook he had acted "like a gangster."
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