tjh wrote:
California Rules of Professional Conduct
Rule 5-100 Threatening Criminal, Administrative, or Disciplinary
Charges
(A) A member shall not threaten to present criminal, administrative,
or disciplinary charges to obtain an advantage in a civil dispute.
(B) As used in paragraph (A) of this rule, the term "administrative
charges" means the filing or lodging of a complaint with a federal,
state, or local governmental entity which may order or recommend the
loss or suspension of a license, or may impose or recommend the
imposition of a fine, pecuniary sanction, or other sanction of a
quasi-criminal nature but does not include filing charges with an
administrative entity required by law as a condition precedent to
maintaining a civil action.
(C) As used in paragraph (A) of this rule, the term "civil dispute"
means a controversy or potential controversy over the rights and duties
of two or more parties under civil law, whether or not an action has
been commenced, and includes an administrative proceeding of a
quasi-civil nature pending before a federal, state, or local
governmental entity.
Given how many times she's made those threats, you'd think the CA Bar would have done SOMETHING, but so far, nope
I have to wonder if maybe they'd do anything more if they had a kind of "concentrated Orly threat" list - something that just gave them quote after quote after quote of her threatening judges, lawyers and other court personnel over the last three years or so - something that just laid bare how excessive she truly is with her threats. Maybe even a list of each case she's filed, with any threats listed beneath the case name, so they can see the ratio of cases where she ends up threatening someone to the ones (are there any?) where she doesn't. But they'd just ignore that like they've ignored everything else, so it'd end up being a lot of work for nothing.
Do you have ANY idea how sick that makes me?