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Tue Oct 26, 2021, 06:26 AM Oct 2021

End of the line? Firebrand suspended lawyer Eric Deters faces contempt -- and maybe jail

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Bar Association has asked the state Supreme Court to hold suspended lawyer Eric Deters in contempt for defying the court’s orders to stop practicing law.

In an 18-page motion filed Wednesday, the bar said other than standing in front of a jury, Deters has “continued to act as a practicing attorney” despite his suspension eight years ago.

The motion says on the very day Deters was denied reinstatement last June, he told the court in a video on his “Bulldog Show” that “I don’t need a law license to make a living in law. You can’t stop me.”

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Deters could be fined or even jailed if he is found in contempt, The Courier Journal reported earlier this week in a story that showed how he had masterminded two so-far unsuccessful federal lawsuits seeking to block vaccination mandates for employees at hospitals in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati.

Deters said the motion is "total bull----" and that "I am not in contempt of anything."

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/21/suspended-kentucky-lawyer-eric-deters-may-see-contempt-jailtime/6111908001/

Lock him up!

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