Thursday, November 29th, 2007
9th Cir: Penalty for Filing Defective Brief
Court calls brief “a slubby mass of words”
In an employment discrimination case where the employee-appellant, represented by counsel, filed a defective brief, the Court today struck the brief and dismissed the appeal. The panel stated:
We publish this opinion as a reminder that material breaches of our rules undermine the administration of justice and cannot be tolerated.
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