Legal News

Ninth Circuit sanctions Sanai

By Richard Binder

Attorney Cyrus Sanai was sanctioned last Thursday by the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council for filing frivolous complaints against 19 judges.

Sanai is most widely known as the lawyer who discovered exually explicit material on Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski?s personal website -- a discovery that led to the judge being admonished. Kozinski, who as chief judge chairs the council, did not participate in the matter.

The council also publicly reprimanded Sanai and ordered that a copy of its order be served on the State Bar of California for consideration of further discipline.

Sanai told the Metropolitan News-Enterprise that he was being retaliated against for trying to call attention to judicial misconduct, and that the judges in question "acted from improper motive" when they rejected his prior complaints in order to protect their colleagues.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).