Tag: Sanction
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‘Take me up to the 10th Circuit’: Federal judge, civil rights attorney defiant as $18,000 sanction on the line
A federal judge and a prominent civil rights attorney both stood their ground at a hearing on Thursday over an impending $18,000 sanction resulting from a failure to turn over evidence as ordered. Sasha Cronick is pursuing claims of unreasonable search and seizure and false arrest against Colorado Springs officers who handcuffed her minutes after…
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‘Inability to behave’: 2 Colorado lawyers take bickering to federal judge, only to be smacked down
“Unbelievably exaggerated …. profoundly misguided …. nothing of substance.” A federal judge last week excoriated a pair of Colorado attorneys for creating a sideshow in their clients’ case and asking for her to mediate a petty conflict between the men that she saw as a waste of her time. “Interpersonal squabbles among the parties’ attorneys…