The Columbus (Ga) Ledger-Enquirer asked several local attorneys what they thought about Orly Taitz and her birther lawsuits:
Columbus attorney William Mason has seen “birther” lawyer Orly Taitz on television and read about her in the newspaper.
He’s quick with a description of the California lawyer: “She’s nuts,” Mason said. “Based on what I saw and read, she’s nuts.”
Mason said her court filings don’t appear written by someone familiar with the court system. Also, members of the Georgia bar, to which Taitz doesn’t belong, aren’t allowed to advance an untrue cause. And, he said, she’s never been able to support speculation made in federal court that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.
For attorney Frank Martin, Taitz’s actions are so egregious that she should be disciplined.
“First of all, a lawyer has an ethical duty not to advance an argument that either you know is not true or you do not have an honest basis to argue,” Martin said. “She’s the type of person who gives lawyers a bad name.”
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Martin calls Taitz’s actions in court better suited to a theatrical stage.
“It’s more than an attack on Judge Land,” Martin said. “It’s an attack on the federal judiciary. I think she’s confused that she’s at a town hall meeting. She’s in a courtroom.”
I’m not sure she knows the difference, but I’m thinking she might have better luck on the stage considering her courtroom record:
* Keyes v. Bowen (California state court): Dismissed and costs awarded.
* Lightfoot v. Bowen (California Supreme Court): Dismissed. Application for “stay pending a writ of cert” at U.S. Supreme Court denied.
* Barnett v. Obama (C.D. Cal.): aka Keyes v. Obama: Defense motion to dismiss pending. (Filed 1/20/09)
o Took Orly 9 months to properly serve Obama
o Orly filed lawsuit after Obama was sworn in
o Filed unredacted personal information
o Attempt to remove Magistrate Judge for following the rules of the Court dismissed
o 6 notices of errors or deficiencies* Brockhausen v. Andrade (Texas state court): Defense motion to dismiss granted.
* Quo Warranto Easterling, et al. v. Obama, et al. (2-US District Attorney and Supreme Court versions)
* Cook v. Good (M.D. Ga.): Defense motion to dismiss granted.
* Cook v. Simtech (M.D. Fla.): Case dismissed sua sponte with comments that suit was “wholly frivolous.”
o Case dismissed within 1 day
* Rhodes v. Gates (W.D. Tex.): Relief denied 30 minutes after being requested for failure to meet filing requirements. Case dismissed.
* Rhodes v. MacDonald (M.D. Ga.): Defense motion to dismiss granted. Frivolous. Sanctions pending.
o 2 Notices of Error
o Motion to withdraw as counsel accepted after client indicated she would file a complaint with California Bar
Ten lawsuits, nine dismissed and one ready to be dismissed.
Yea, that’s not good.
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$20K fine, Maybe when she becomes a real lawyer she will appreciate what just happened.
“Counsel’s contention that this Court, which is most familiar with counsel’s conduct, must recuse so that another judge may be burdened with counsel’s frivolous arguments is meritless.”
Clay D. Land
U.S. District Judge
– from the sanctions order dated Oct. 13, 2009
Priceless! As an attorney admitted in California for 25+ years, I’m embarrassed that Ms. Taitz is also a member of our state bar, and can only hope that the multiple reports of her misconduct to the Office of Trial Counsel will soon result in her disbarment.
I vividly recall reading a reported Federal District Court case around 1984 in which Larry Flynt repeatedly responded to a judge’s pronouncement of contempt sanctions (jail, IIRC) with “give me more, you C***s**ker”, each being dutifully reported in the footnotes of the official publication of the case. The judge happily did exactly as he was so coarsely requested — multiple times, the propriety of which was the subject of the case.
Here, however, Ms. Taitz is a lawyer (no matter how hard that is to believe from her conduct and pleadings). If ever there was a textbook example of how not to handle a litigation matter, while concurrently ensuring the imposition of sanctions, surely she is continuing to write it.
It will be a great day for the profession when her disbarment is announced. No matter her political persuasion, she is utterly incompetent and wholly unprofessional in her role as an attorney.
It is interesting and relevant that Judge Land is a Bush 43 appointee, and I don’t think the GOP would want known its complicity, and/or conspiracy with the Pelosi-Dems to enable the Usurper’s ‘Presidency’. On the other hand, Judge Carter is a Bill Clinton appointee, and by Hillary’s TV comments over the weekend, is planning on assuming the Congressionally-selected Presidency on Obama’s ejectment. (And by McCain’s TV comments over the weekend, it looks like ‘12 now to be Palin/Pawlenty v. Clinton/yet to be determined.)