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Darby Donating Member (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-04 11:32 AM
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If you're so mad, then WHY aren't you FIGHTING BACK with THIS...


FAX AN ETHICS COMPLAINT TO THE TEXAS STATE BAR TODAY

Force John O'Neill to be accountable for the accuracy of his public statements:

John E. O'Neill
CLEMENTS O'NEILL PIERCE WILSON ET AL
1000 LOUISIANA ST STE 1800
HOUSTON, TX, 77002
phone (713) 654-7604

Bar Card Number: 1529750

John E. O'Neill, author of Unfit for Command, is an attorney licensed and practicing in Texas. Rumor has it he thinks he will be appointed a federal judge...

According to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct:

Rule 8.04 Misconduct (a) A lawyer shall not: ...(3) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation;

The State Bar can sanction him, suspend his license or even DISBAR him.

PLEASE WRITE, FAX, FED EX THE TEXAS STATE BAR TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THESE VIOLATIONS - including at least one specific example of an obvious lie and you must sign your name:

P.O. Box 12487
Austin, Texas 78711

1414 Colorado St.
Austin, TX 78701

Fax: (512)463-1475 <----------------------------

Telephone Numbers --- but writing is better

Toll Free: (800)204-2222
Local: (512)463-1463

COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF O'NEILL'S DEBUNKED LIES AT www.mediamatters.org - search on "O'NEILL"


www.texasbar.com for more info if you need it

(AND WRITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF TEXAS NEWSPAPERS ASKING WHY O'NEILL IS NOT BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE UNDER THIS RULE)
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Nederland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-04 11:39 AM
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1. Two reasons
1) Such a move would never actually disbar O'neill. If the standard for disbarring a lawyer was as low as "dishonesty" there wouldn't be many working lawyers.

2) Move importantly, such a move would merely add fuel to the Republican charge that the Democrat solution to everything is a lawsuit.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-04 11:46 AM
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2. O'Neill is being questioned by the state bar /nt
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Darby Donating Member (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-04 12:35 PM
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5. Says who?
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mbali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-04 11:47 AM
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3. Repubs finally found a trial lawyer they like . . .
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Darby Donating Member (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-04 12:32 PM
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4. Rules are Rules..they apply to everyone without exception
If he doesn't have to follow them, why should any other Texas lawyer follow them? Why have any rules at all? Let's just have a big wanton free for all - anything goes, right? Wrong. The Texas legal ethicis standards are taking a serious hit because of this man and something needs to be done to preserve the integrity of the sytem, and people's faith in that system. It is important.
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