Birther Taitz Decries 'Political Lynching' In New Filing Against Judge's $20K Fine

[brooklynite]

Source: Talking Points Memo

In a colorful eight-page filing, Birther attorney Orly Taitz declares that she will appeal a federal judge's $20,000 fine, which she was ordered to pay within 30 days last week.

...snip...

The filing with the US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia is dated Monday and was posted last night. Read the whole thing here.

Taitz also claims that she hired a private investigator who found "39 different social security numbers used by Mr. Obama" including numbers with links to Judge Clay Land's own district. This, Taitz says, is reason she should be granted further discovery.

She told TPMmuckraker last week that she had no intention to pay the $20,000 fine, which stemmed from frivolous filings in the Birther case of Taitz's former client, an Army captain.

Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/birther_taitz_decries_political_lynching_as_she_ap.php?ref=fpb

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Can't you just wait till next year when she appears on "I'm a Celebrity; Get Me Out of Here!"?

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[atreides1]

2. Because

The California State Bar hasn't taken away her license to practice law, that's why!

[bluestateguy]

3. And how much paper is going to have to be pushed to get that done?

Meanwhile how many more of these asinine petitions must we endure? It was funny for a little while. Now it needs to be put to a stop.

[Sgent]

25. In this particular case

she's representing herself -- not a client. So attorney or not she would be allowed to file on her own behalf (pro se).

[brooklynite]

35. "A person who represents themself in Court has a Dentist for a client..."

(I think that's how the expression goes...)

[Soylent Brice]

4. a gift from me to you, Ms. Taitz:

please. keep digging.

[katkat]

5. more $

Maybe they'll fine her every time she files a brief. One can only hope.

How does this woman support herself, anyway? And what's happening with all those malpractice suits?

[tabatha]

6. Orly Taitz files comical notice of appeal

Somehow this must have looked like a good idea to the firm of Taitz, Lincoln. But how does a lawyer who has been fired by her client, a lawyer who then filed a Motion to Withdraw as attorney for that client, now file an appeal on behalf of that client?

On September 28, 2009, in Document #21, this Court granted counsel’s Motion to Withdraw as Attorney (Documents #19-20, 22). The undersigned, accordingly appeals only the conditions attached to that order granting her leave to withdraw as counsel for the Plaintiff.

If she can appeal her own motion, which was granted, on behalf of a client she doesn’t have, the law is a bigger ass than I thought. The condition attached to that Order was that she not break attorney-client privilege, as she had asked to do when withdrawing as attorney for Capt. Rhodes, who had already fired her in the famous Office Max Fax. In appealing her own sanctions, Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. wants to blab her former client’s secrets, while appealing same sanctions in the name of her former client.

http://ohforgoodnesssake.com/?p=3992

[BootinUp]

7. I predict they will not hear

her appeal. Not a lawyer just a guess. ;)

[thereismore]

8. 39 different SSN? Maybe he is secretly getting social security! Now that would be impeachable, no?nt

[tabatha]

9. They are probably errors.

[Mz Pip]

12. It's easy

to make up a chain of 9 numbers separated by a couple of dashes.

[struggle4progress]

14. "... several numbers .. in Judge Land's ... own backyard ..."

Apparently Judge Land is not only treasonous, he's also partnering with Obama in some Social Security scam

[Ganja Ninja]

18. Yeah 39 different?

or the same mistake made 39 times and not necessarily by Obama. :shrug:

[SpiralHawk]

19. Found by her Private Dick

Ummm hmmmmm....

What a Republicon she is.

[AzNick]

23. Probably faulty data in the credit reports

Happens all the time.

[RDANGELO]

10. On this SSN thing

How could she get that information without breaking confidentiality laws. She is probably lying anyways.

[truthisfreedom]

20. Exactly. Just how does a private dick get SSNs from anyone without breaking the law?

Just askin'.

[Quasimodem]

11. I'm waiting until the time runs out on paying her fine.

I don't play a lawyer on the Internet, but I think that is where the judge swears out a bench warrant on her ass.

[Piewhacket]

29. Alas, if it were only so...

I once knew a lawyer who I somehow annoyed, even
though I was always nice to him personaly.
An unpredictable lot, lawyers, don't you find?

Anyway, if that counts for anything I'd be guessing the
order stands and the Fed Marshal may proceed with
collection in the absence of an order to the contrary
as soon as the date has passed.

Is that how you read it. No arrest and jail, just get the
money and bring it to ME! OK, maybe just the "Get the money!" part.

Of course, if she interferes with the Marshal collecting
the $20,000.... you know, confronts him and beats her tiny fists
upon his chest crying "Where's the birth certificate!" over
and over.... well then....

[damntexdem]

13. Double the fine, and throw her in jail!

Her behavior goes well beyond contempt of court.

[Xipe Totec]

22. The Judge did not file criminal contempt charges

In order to avoid wasting even more of the court's time.

[SemperEadem]

15. I hope she doesn't pay

I'd love to see her ass frog-marched in handcuffs off to jail.

[AzNick]

24. And then Obama will pardon her just for kicks and gigs nt

[DarthTater]

38. I.d rather not...

...see her @$$ at all, thanks! LMAO!! Hauled off to Jail, maybe, but the entertainment factor is still very high!

:wtf: :rofl:

[SpiralHawk]

16. Americans are sooo sick of whiney Republicons

Why don't they just act like Real Adults and pull themselves up by their own gavels.

[struggle4progress]

17. I bet the Appeals Court can say "sua sponte," too

[jberryhill]

21. I love it when courts talk dirty

Nunc pro tunc, baby.

[Piewhacket]

30. Ignorantia juris non excusat

[Xipe Totec]

34. I bet she hadn't heard what "sua sponte" meant, till the judge used the phrase n/t

[LTR]

26. Isn't "political lynching" kinda like what she's trying to do to Obama?

Send her hypocritical crybaby ass back to Russia!

[Demeter]

27. IOKIYAR, Orly?

What a whiner.

[Piewhacket]

28. Twilight Zone music plays. She's appealing the CASE???

Without a client? Hooboy. Keep digging Orly, you're right
on top of a goldmine! Sure enough.

But this gets more and more bizarre.

Recap, Orly files a case. After expedited hearing requested by her
the judge dismisses, basically on grounds of abstention.

He also finds the case frivolous and warns against further
frivolous actions. The ruling and findings are well supported.
A skillful lawyer might still save the day, if they are very very
good and very very careful. But noooo, Orly is not that kind of lawyer.

She files a motion for reconsideration which is not only abusive
but does not even address the court's ruling. The court finds that
a motion for reconsideration which does not address
legal issues in the challenged ruling is itself frivolous,
and issues a show cause for sanctions of $10,000.

Orly responds to the show cause and provides an abusive answer
which ALSO manages to miss mentioning or addressing any issues
related to sanctions! OMG. She gets fined $20,000.

So now she generally appeals, bypassing normal procedure on some kind of
claim of bias, futility and peril (ironically true, just not in the way
she imaghines), and now claiming her original filing was not frivolous
and that she must be granted discovery to prove that? Hello? Does she now
know that Obama is no longer in this case?

She does state she is appealing all the adverse rulings... but she gives
no legal argument they are in error. Shotgun!

What is kinda bizarre is that her client has already fired her.
Well, anyway, I lost her back at the beginning.
Anyone care to explain the current motion?

[struggle4progress]

32. Well, the current filing presents itself as a notice that she will appeal the $20K sanctions. But

for reasons known only to Orly, the filing manages not to suggest much reason for appeal, though it does manage to suggest that the judgev is somehow in cahoots with some identity-theft mastermind who has somehow become POTUS, leaving behind only a mysterious trail of dozens of false social security numbers :crazy:

[Piewhacket]

36. might be how they teach them in dentist school?

As far as I can figure from pg 4
(http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/10/orly-taitz-decries-political-lynching-in-filing-102009.php?page=4)

she now, on appeal, intends to prove the original filing (declared frivolous, warning issued) wasn't really
frivolous (and she wants, nay, demands discovery to prove this), that her motion for reconsideration (declared frivolous,
for which an osc was issued), and that her osc response (again frivolous, for which her fine was doubled) somehow had merit.

all this she now appeals (along with objecting to everything mean the judge said about her), all while claiming the judge is a
corrupt socialist sympathizer and scum sucking progressive in bed with Obama.

first, shouldn't she have done all that in her reconsideration motion , or at least in her OSC response?
AFAIK all she covered in the osc was the judge is a corrupt chicken plucker who is against her.

and second, now she finally mentions the abstention ruling (in passing). two motions too late...
god, didn't they teach her abstention in correspondence school?

You wonder if anyone who passed the CA bar (50% pass rate) could actually be such a bad lawyer, or perhaps she
just became unhinged when a black man was elected President. In any event there might be some
argument that could be made on behalf of her client, but these legal maneuvers demonstrate she has
no care about her client, this is HER mission not theirs, her arguments have zero merit, and all this
seems to accomplish is to play to the money machine back home.

(Perhaps She hopes the Supreme Court will pluck the case from the wilderness and rule to unseat Obama.)

I think we know what happens next.

As for Orly's "clients"... shudder.

[fascisthunter]

31. I Would Love to Speak to Her Face-to-face live on National TV

just to tell her to see a shrink and to STFU.

[struggle4progress]

33. Land waived rules to allow her to file originally. One hopes the Appeals Court will require

her appeal to be presented by a competent attorney and otherwise not heard

[Lasher]

37. Yay, another episode of Orly!

:D

[onenote]

39. Only Orly could appeal sanctions for unprofessional conduct with more unprofessional conduct

If only Lucille Ball was still alive and available to portray Orly in the new sitcom -- "Oh, That Orly!" - the midadventures of a psychotic dentist-lawyer russian emigre in her battle against, well, every sane person on the planet earth.

[Arkana]

40. If she appears on that show it'll need its name changed to

"I'm a Celebrity; Get Me Away From This Screeching, Taloned, Bleach-Blonde Harpy!"