Detroit Asks Court to Issue Sanction

[Yonnie3]

Slap 'em back!

Detroit Asks Court to Issue Sanction After Trump Campaign Lawyer Used Court Filing to ‘Spread Disinformation’

The City of Detroit sharply criticized the increasingly flailing Trump campaign’s legal team for an erroneous, incorrect and inaccurate filing previously submitted in federal court.

Detroit is a defendant in the Trump campaign’s apparently abandoned legal efforts to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election results in Wayne County specifically and Michigan generally. And now, the Motor City wants the campaign sanctioned as a result of that error because, they claim, Trump’s attorneys knew it was false and were attempting to use the court filing in order to spread, well, fake news.

In a motion filed late Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, attorneys for Detroit lambasted a Thursday morning filing by attorney Mark F. “Thor” Hearne II which falsely stated that the Wayne County Board of Canvassers “declined to certify the results of the presidential election.”

As Law&Crime previously reported, that wasn’t true at all and legal experts were summarily astonished at the claim made in the motion.

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From: https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/detroit-seeks-sanctions-blasts-trump-campaign-for-using-court-filing-to-spread-disinformation/

[stillcool]

1. Good for them!

Sometimes I really wish I had a lot of money.

[Yonnie3]

3. My answer to if I won the lottery what would I do is always ...

I'd do all the things they say Soros is doing and then some (if it is legal).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Finally, a Rule 11 motion!

I was wondering when that would happen, but figured it was bound to eventually.

[Yonnie3]

6. It seems to me that there are more valid instances for such motions,

as to the probability of sanctions I dunno. From dimly remembered classes I think they are rather rare.

[TomSlick]

11. Agreed.

[Nevilledog]

4. Ummm....Trump's attorney is Thor?

[Marcuse]

8. Loki was in Philadelphia.

[George II]

5. What is it donnie dickhead said about "so much winning"?

[Ohioboy]

7. Good! There needs to be consequences for this misinformation they are spreading

[MFM008]

9. I said in an earlier post

that someone somewhere needed to start mounting a vigorous defense against this shit.................

[AmericanCanuck]

10. Make all of Trump's lawyers lose their law licenses for good

[Shrike47]

12. The punishment requested in this instance is money, money, money. Seems like a start.

[AmericanCanuck]

14. Law license money .... there you go!

[pat_k]

13. Every defendent in these cases should be. . .

. . .at least seeking to hold the plaintiffs liable for costs in these nonsense cases.

28 U.S. Code § 1927.Counsel’s liability for excessive costs

Any attorney or other person admitted to conduct cases in any court of the United States or any Territory thereof who so multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 957; Pub. L. 96–349, § 3, Sept. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 1156.)

I don't know if you could find a better example of multiplying the proceedings unreasonably and vexatiously.