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[h=1]Justice Dept. lawyers ordered to take ethics classes after misleading judge in amnesty case[/h]
This is pretty entertaining. I wonder if this opens the door for more action by other judges to sanction attorneys from the State Department and the DOJ in the FOIA cases.
The Justice Department will order all of its civil division lawyers to take an hourlong remedial ethics class, hoping to head off even worse punishment from a federal judge who is furious about the way Obama administration attorneys misled him in the case involving the president’s deportation amnesty.
Justice Department lawyers to take remedial ethics classes after misleading judge in amnesty case - Washington TimesBut the lawyers pleaded with Judge Hanen not to slap any of them with sanctions, saying the errors were the result of groupthink and not attributable to any particular lawyer’s goofs. The lawyers asked the judge to keep in place the 108,000 three-year amnesties issued in defiance of his rulings, saying to punish the illegal immigrants who were improperly granted them “would be unwarranted.”
“We fully recognize that we used flawed phrasing, which is unfortunate and regrettable, and — quite understandably — has been exasperating for this Court. But the imprecision was inadvertent, not the product of an intent to deceive,” the department said in its filing. “We therefore respectfully submit there is no basis for imposing sanctions against any person or entity.”
This is pretty entertaining. I wonder if this opens the door for more action by other judges to sanction attorneys from the State Department and the DOJ in the FOIA cases.
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