The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed sanctions leveled against two Texas civil defense attorneys who failed to initially disclose recorded phone conversations they later used to impeach a plaintiff who alleged she was sexually assaulted by an employee while incarcerated in a privately-run jail.
The background to the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision in Olivarez v. GEO Group is as follows according to the opinion:
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