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In Re Complaint of Judicial Misconduct (9th Cir. - Dec. 10, 2008)

By Shaun Martin

There's more than one way to get your name in the Federal Reporter. For example, you can be an attorney and file a frivolous complaint of judicial misconduct. To which the Ninth Circuit will respond by (1) expressly admonishing you in a public forum, and (2) entering a prefiling order against you.

In short, if you waste our time -- the time of ten judges, I might add -- we'll make you look bad. Or at least we'll let everyone know how bad you look, Joseph Nascimento.

P.S. - Oh, yeah. We'll also alert the State Bar of Montana.

P.P.S. - A little research reveals that Mr. Nascimento may not be as adversely affected by the publicity as I might have initially thought, since he's (1) already pretty public about his (somewhat paranoid) allegations, and (2) is already indefinitely suspended from the practice of law.

Full post as published by California Appellate Report on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).