Comments on Advance Indiana™: More On Indiana Lawyers Not Having Free Speech Rights: Attorney Suspended For Referring To Mother As "Illegal Immigrant"

I read the opinion and I agree with the Court. ...

2013-09-16T12:01:19.258-05:00

I read the opinion and I agree with the Court.

An attorney is supposed to conduct himself as a professional, and this require him to follow the stated rules of professional conduct, and yes, those rules do properly limit his ability to exercise free speech (e.g. an attorney has a duty of confidentiality and cannot just disclose client-related facts without the client's consent).

Making unfounded (there is no proof offered the attorney knew of the mother's immigration status) accusations that a person is committing a crime simply for the purpose of being a jackass is not conducting onself in accordance with the rules of professional conduct for an attorney.

If the issue is that the attorney felt the mother didn't understand Enlgish and this is why she supposedly coudn't follow a court order, then he should have said so. But, accusing her of a crime without any evidence and just for the purpose of shooting off a pithy little letter to opposing counsel is not acceptable.

We do not need such people practicing in the profession of law.

Did you see Ogden's story about the attorneys ...

2013-09-15T15:45:48.109-05:00

Did you see Ogden's story about the attorneys getting disbarred for filing a motion to recuse?

The walls came down on America about 30 years ago, and 9/11 gave them the rest of what they wanted.

Now that they have everything in place, they're making their move.

America has now fully entered a very dark phase. We may not be a single country when we emerge from this.

What are the DC & ISC doing about the 57 other...

2013-09-15T09:22:20.904-05:00

What are the DC & ISC doing about the 57 other cases? Or, is it politics rather than legitimate operation or erudite consistency, that the public is paying for?

What if you say to your opposing counsel "You...

2013-09-15T07:15:21.497-05:00

What if you say to your opposing counsel "Your client is acting
like a greedy pig," when the opposing party is Muslem or Jewish?

I'd be curious as to who turned this attorney in.

Have we reached the point where someone runs to the Disc. Comm. everytime someone says something in bad taste?

As I noted, the opinion doesn't indicate wheth...

2013-09-14T08:32:48.031-05:00

As I noted, the opinion doesn't indicate whether the assertion was factual. If I'm reading the opinion correctly, her legal status is irrelevant to the Court's analysis in this case. The attorney's discipline is based upon imposing an issue that the Court found was not legitimate advocacy as it related to her violation of the court's child parenting time order.

SO, IS the mother an illegal? It is important to ...

2013-09-14T06:54:01.086-05:00

SO, IS the mother an illegal? It is important to know.

Who would ever choose the legal profession as a li...

2013-09-13T21:04:46.902-05:00

Who would ever choose the legal profession as a line of work?

You take on over $100K in debt for a degree that teaches you little. You can't find a job once you get the degree. Once out of school, you have to take a test to be allowed your job, because the degree, in itself, is worthless. Once you clear all of those hurdles, you can be thrown out of your career if you say the slightest thing a judge doesn't like.

Skip college. Learn welding.