Chapman University is hanging retired law prof. John Eastman and his purported client out to dry.

[pnwmom]

https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/chapman-university-says-it-didnt-authorize-law-profs-representation-of-trump-yet-work-was-on-server?fbclid=IwAR3yfcw9Im3suNw7qtT15GaPMPgDBvvzI5cH-t_yfql7z_z9h7MoVEVC5dQ

Chapman filed a Jan. 21 response regarding the professor’s TRO request. It did not authorize Eastman’s work representing Trump, the filing states, and doing so would have violated the university’s 501(c)(3) tax status, because IRS rules prohibit such institutions from using resources, including computer networks, for political campaigns or on behalf of political candidates. Also, the brief stated the school had no interest in determining whether any of the documents involve attorney-client privilege.

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Also, the order states that Eastman can renew attorney work-product claims for specific documents identified during document production. According to Chapman’s Jan. 21 filing, the university identified 19,000 documents that may be responsive to the subpoena.

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Most university general counsel offices do not have sophisticated discovery review tools, according to O’Brien. He estimates that hiring outside counsel to review 19,000 items would cost “tens of thousands of dollars,” especially if there are many documents with varying types of privacy obligations.

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He adds that universities usually vet any legal work a law professor wants to take on, and the process includes a conflict-of-interest check.

“Eastman has argued that this was a service component of his academic work. Based on my review, I doubt it was pitched that way,” O’Brien says.

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[Hekate]

1. Oh the poor dear

I guess Chapman is a real university after all. There are real rules about how their resources are used, and real penalties if they break the rules.

[SunSeeker]

2. Eastman is even dumber than he looks. He used his university email account?

What a fucking idiot.

[Comfortably_Numb]

4. I have a work email through my state university with .edu suffix. You better know I am aware

that it is monitored and can be FOIA’d and is subject to discovery in court. I found out the latter when a student sued me for enforcing university policy. (I won.) I also sign a conflict-of-interest disclaimer every year and acknowledge that I can be fired for violations. I hate to think I’m more situationally aware than John Eastman, but then again, I’m not a seditionist magat piece of shit, so there’s that.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Great closing statement!!!

There's that - indeed!!!

[Comfortably_Numb]

7. Thank you!!! For that wonderful start to my day!

[pnwmom]

10. Thanks for confirming my suspicions. There is no excuse for a law professor,

of all people, not to have been aware of the risks. The message was flashing in his face every time he went on the computer!

I hope his stupidity showed up in all his emails . . .

[Comfortably_Numb]

12. You are exactly right. That is the first screen that I see BEFORE I can even log in. If I

don’t check, in my case “I agree”, then I do not get connected. Period. Full stop

[pnwmom]

13. LOL. Apparently Eastman had drunk the Koolaid.

He was that certain that Trump would triumph.

[Comfortably_Numb]

14. So much Koolaide that he couldn't see the screen...what a maroon.

[lagomorph777]

16. Possibly something stronger.

[3Hotdogs]

6. If he is retired, what are the consequences of the college's position?

[pnwmom]

15. I don't think any, since they are fully cooperating. nt

[gab13by13]

8. Every time I see articles like this I shudder,

Once again it is the select committee doing the subpoena and not DOJ. People better wake up, DOJ is not investigating, if it were, the select committee would not be involved in an ongoing investigation.

What we are going to end up with is a fantastic presentation, put on by the select committee, that will lay out in detail all of the evidence that shows all of the crimes that Trump and his circle of traitors committed, none of which were investigated by DOJ.

After the show is over I ask this question; if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound? My answer is, no.

[pnwmom]

11. The risk would be if the Committee was giving immunity. They're not giving immunity

to get this information, and it could still be used in a prosecution.

And I don't assume that we'd succeed in getting 12 jurors to convict him, even if we have a prosecution. The best we might be able to do is to get so much truth out that even the Republicans have had enough, and he loses his influence in the party.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Eastman needs to be disbarred and prosecuted