L-R Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack. Courtesy photos The Lesson of Rule 11 Sanctions: Practice Professionally
If you file a frivolous pleading, you may find yourself before someone like Judge Parker, and that judge may feel that the appropriate sanction is to suggest that you be disbarred for signing off on a pleading that violates Fed. Rule 11.
September 03, 2021 at 02:16 PM
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The recent opinion issued by U.S. Judge District Linda V. Parker of the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, in King v. Whitmer is a study in what a court can do to an attorney who has signed off on a pleading that appears to the court to have violated Rule 11. There is no mystery to Parker's view on the actions of the attorneys in that case, which dealt with allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Parker writes:
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