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Nevilledog

(51,055 posts)
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 06:09 PM Aug 2021

🚨🚨Kraken lawyers sanctioned BIGLY in Michigan



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Spiro Agnew’s Ghost
@SpiroAgnewGhost
BREAKING: Judge Linda Parker has granted Michigan & Detroit’s motion for sanctions against the Kraken lawyers, including referrals for disbarment against Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, etc.
2:51 PM · Aug 25, 2021 from Los Angeles, CA
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🚨🚨Kraken lawyers sanctioned BIGLY in Michigan (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2021 OP
More Nevilledog Aug 2021 #1
From the court order teach1st Aug 2021 #5
Yeah and now we see if Texas will blow off this referral. Thomas Hurt Aug 2021 #2
K&R UTUSN Aug 2021 #3
"referrals for disbarment" How does that work? Nittersing Aug 2021 #4
Each state licenses lawyers its own way Effete Snob Aug 2021 #8
Thank you kindly. nt Nittersing Aug 2021 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Effete Snob Aug 2021 #6
If these people are not disbarred Mr.Bill Aug 2021 #7
Yes, how any of these fools PatSeg Aug 2021 #11
Most bar associations don't have licensing authority soldierant Aug 2021 #16
WOT GOES AROUND....... Goonch Aug 2021 #9
Sidney Powell, Kraken legal team face sanctions, court costs and potential disbarment over election Ptah Aug 2021 #12
I guess Sydney Powell was on Bannon's show today Nevilledog Aug 2021 #15
From the "Kraken to a deep-fried calamari appetizer. Hahahaha!!! OMGWTF Aug 2021 #13
Wheels of Justice are Grinding Beetwasher. Aug 2021 #14

Nevilledog

(51,055 posts)
1. More
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 06:18 PM
Aug 2021


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Andrew Feinberg
@AndrewFeinberg
NEW: Judge Linda Parker has granted Michigan/Detroit’s motion for sanctions against the Kraken lawyers, including referrals for disbarment against Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, etc. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_3.pdf
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2:45 PM · Aug 25, 2021


Full Order by Judge Parker
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_3.pdf


teach1st

(5,933 posts)
5. From the court order
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 06:40 PM
Aug 2021
And this case was never about fraud—it was about undermining the People’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so.
 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
8. Each state licenses lawyers its own way
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 06:59 PM
Aug 2021

A common misunderstanding is the role of “bar associations” which, in most states, is merely a professional organization. There are some in which the “bar association” licenses lawyers.

In most states, lawyers are licensed under the authority of the highest court in the state, which authorizes a particular code of conduct and appoints a body to oversee violations of that code.

Since federal courts do not license lawyers, they must refer findings of misconduct to the appropriate state body for whatever action that body believes to be appropriate.

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Mr.Bill

(24,262 posts)
7. If these people are not disbarred
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 06:58 PM
Aug 2021

The Bar Associations themselves have no integrity and need to clean their own house. Judges should have jailed these assholes for contempt.

soldierant

(6,836 posts)
16. Most bar associations don't have licensing authority
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 10:39 PM
Aug 2021

and therefore cannot disbar. But there will be some agency in each home state of these lawyers which does. I gather Powell is from Texas? And I blieve Wood is from Georgia.

Don't get me wrong, there are groups which have the authority, and those are the groups to whm this is being referreed ... and those groups must justify their own integrity (or continue in shame without it, but I hope the former.) They just mostly are not "bar associations."

Ptah

(33,023 posts)
12. Sidney Powell, Kraken legal team face sanctions, court costs and potential disbarment over election
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 07:56 PM
Aug 2021

Attorneys allied with former President Donald Trump who tried to use a conspiracy-laden lawsuit to overturn Michigan's election results have received federal sanctions from a judge in Michigan and could face a host of other disciplinary measures.

The attorneys must also pay legal fees for the city of Detroit and others that defended against the lawsuit and take 12 hours of training — including six hours focused on election law — in the next six months.

The punishments foreshadow far more potentially devastating problems for Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and a cadre of other attorneys who used their so-called "Kraken" lawsuit to push a false claim that an international cabal worked to steal the election away from Trump in Michigan and several other states.

In addition to harshly chastising the attorneys who filed the suit in her ruling, U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker ordered her sanctions be sent to the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission and similar associations around the country. Other courts and state bar associations have the capacity to disbar or otherwise punish these attorneys.



https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/25/federal-judge-sanctions-sidney-powell-kraken-team-over-election-case/5484021001/

Nevilledog

(51,055 posts)
15. I guess Sydney Powell was on Bannon's show today
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 08:28 PM
Aug 2021


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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
@patriottakes
So today, Sidney Powell told Steve Bannon that she needs 100 attorneys to help defend the insurrectionists.

With today’s news of her potential disbarment, she now needs 101.
5:21 PM · Aug 25, 2021

Beetwasher.

(2,970 posts)
14. Wheels of Justice are Grinding
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 08:23 PM
Aug 2021

I know, it’s hard doing it the right way, but due process is what separates us from everything we abhor. Patience. It’s frustrating waiting, I know, but it must be done the right way.

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