Discussion: Kobach Sanctioned By Court For 'Deceptive Conduct And Lack Of Candor'

[charliee]

This one’s easy, courtesy of the Current Occupant:

1. Accuse the judge of doing shoddy work.
2. Refuse to pay the fine.

[antisachetdethe]

Deposition, under oath. The perjury possibilities are endless.

[teenlaqueefa]

Hope so, he’s despicable.

[albert911emt]

Phony cheating by the democrats is bad, but real cheating by the republicans is totally ok, legal, and patriotic.

[mymy]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

[twowolves]

The perjury possibilities are endless.

Get the deposition out of Kansas and I’d agree with you.

[ralph_vonholst]

I wonder just how drunk Melania needs to get to, ya know…

It would take more gin than there is in all of Hemel-Hempstead.

[lastroth]

“Although conduct resulting in the imposition of sanctions typically has a negative, but short-term, financial impact on counsel or his client, it usually has a much more sustained impact on the reputation of counsel—both among judicial officers and the practicing bar,” it said.

Translation: You’re fucked every time you enter a Federal courtroom, Kobi. Federal judges don’t forget

There’s got to be a list, right? A list that if you get sued a lot you don’t want to be on.

[charliee]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

Yes, it could, actually. It could very easily happen to a nicer guy.

[antisachetdethe]

About Judge O’Hara (from the court website)

While in private practice, O’Hara served on the Ethics and Grievance Committee of the Johnson County Bar Association, on the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys, on the Bench-Bar Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, and on the boards of civic and church organizations.
http://www.ksd.uscourts.gov/james-p-ohara/

The Judge is a big ethics in law advocate. This is going to get good.

@twowolves

[katscherger]

BLOTUS

That describes that tennis picture perfectly.

[tena]

So does - Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[nymund]

I fail to see how Kobach’s reputation could possibly get any worse.

[leftcoaster]

I hesitated before I “liked.” And I now need brain disinfectant.

[checkmate2016]

Well, I guess you know I think this guy is Evil; Republicans are … well, you know

[katscherger]

Yeah, but if he plays too many games during the deposition, there could be a discovery referee or magistrate appointed to be present during it.

[ghost]

If he was only sanctioned $1000, he got off extremely cheap.

The amount of the sanction doesn’t matter as much as the fact of the sanctions. The vast majority of lawyers and clients never get sanctioned in their entire careers. Everyone in the profession remembers when someone they know of gets sanctioned. It’s a big scarlet “S” on your career.

And it actually takes quite a lot to get a federal judge or magistrate to issue sanctions. I’ve only succeeded in getting them imposed once and the facts there were clearly egregious.

[katscherger]

And it actually takes quite a lot to get a federal judge or magistrate to issue sanctions. I’ve only succeeded in getting them imposed once.

It’s different here in California, then.

[mattinpa]

If you can get ‘Have Mercy, Judge’ you will be this weekend’s superhero.

Getting it was the easy part. I think you’re the superhero for knowing about it.

[just_observing]

Kathleen