Above the Law reports
Edward C. Chung wanted to drive home his concern that Chevron (and some other entities) might skip out on an $18 billion arbitration award. To bolster his case, he sought to enter a Saudi Sun news article into the record for “demonstrative purposes.” What it demonstrated was creative writing, because the article was phony.
Brings “fake news” to a whole new level, doesn’t it?
The court sanctioned Chung to the tune of $268K.
Chung wrote a letter to the court describing the article as a “hypothetical paper” which didn’t assuage the Ninth Circuit’s ethical concerns. It probably didn’t help that Chung also…
…accused two 9th Circuit judges of “an obvious abuse of judicial authority, corruption and collusion between you, Chevron Corporation and its counsel of record, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.”
Then he didn’t show up for the sanctions hearing and questioned whether or not the judge actually signed the sanctions order given “so many profound oddities, threats and misrepresentations made in this case by Chevron and their counsels….”
Read more
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/01/lawyer-sanctioned-for-trying-to-file-a-fake-news-article-as-an-exhibit/
