Thursday, December 17, 2020

Don't shush opposing counsel during depos.

And definitely do NOT insert bad haikus into pleadings. 

If you do, the 11th Circuit will affirm sanctions against you:

Peter, a member of the Florida bar who holds himself out as a bankruptcy attorney, argues that the district court abused its discretion in sanctioning him. The conduct that led to the sanctions included, among other things, his repeated “shushing” of opposing counsel during a deposition; his submission of lengthy and superfluous filings, one in which he wrote a nonsensical haiku; his argument that the bankruptcy court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to preside over a dispute explicitly provided for in the Bankruptcy Code; and his assertion that he did not know what a privilege log was despite being a barred attorney. 

I mean, it might be nonsensical to you, 11th Circuit, but come on... art is in the eye of the beholder:

Peter then filed a 153-page motion for reconsideration of the bankruptcy court’s order denying him summary judgment, including in it accusations of domestic violence against Howard, as well as other immaterial details about family life. The filing concluded with what the bankruptcy court would later describe as “pointless poetry”—the haiku, which read: “All know: talk is cheap; Liars can claim anything; No evidence?! Balk!” The bankruptcy court denied the motion for reconsideration.  

Nonsensical?

Pointless?

How dare you!

Here's a New York Times article explaining what "art" is and whether it's "good."

Meantime... it's not easy to write 153 pages that includes poetry...

 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Can we instead tell them to shut the fuck up and stop coaching the witness?