Alan Dershowitz ordered to pay limited sanctions in Arizona election case

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Prof. Tribe is amused by the sanctions that Dershowitz now owes.

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/alan-dershowitz-ordered-pay-limited-sanctions-arizona-election-case-2023-07-14/

- Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz lost a bid on Friday to avoid sanctions over a lawsuit by failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake that sought to prohibit the use of electronic voting machines in her state's 2022 midterm elections.

However, U.S. District Judge John Tuchi in Phoenix held that Dershowitz is only responsible for 10% of a $122,200 sanction he leveled against the rest of Lake and former Arizona state representative Mark Finchem's legal team, which consisted of Andrew Parker of Parker Daniels Kibort and Kurt B. Olsen of the Olsen Law Firm.

Tuchi found that Dershowitz had a limited role in the case, and that "his public participation appears largely to have been engineered by others."

Dershowitz still signed numerous filings in the lawsuit, which Tuchi said was sanctionable.

"Failing to impose meaningful sanctions here might very well encourage others to follow suit by lending their credibility to documents filed in court without facing any real consequence if their certifications prove hollow or incomplete," Tuchi said in his ruling. "The need for general deterrence is therefore significant."

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Because all these fucking losing losers do is lose, and then go out to lose some more

Loser Drumpf is their hero, as he's The King of Losing (and Bankruptcies)

[gratuitous]

2. "Might very well encourage others to . . . lending their credibility"

I don't think that the peril of "lending" his credibility to a frivolous lawsuit is a consideration for Dersh anymore.