Friday, November 03, 2006  Writing poorly: judge requires a
make-up assignment  As a writing teacher, I have to enjoy one
judge's creative sanction in a federal case from Iowa. The
lawyer had submitted objections to discovery that were
"boilerplate, obstructionist, frivolous, overbroad" and
generally contrary to law. But as a sanction, the judge required
not the payment of money but the writing of a paper. The lawyer
was ordered to "write an article explaining why it is improper
to assert the objections that he asserted in this case" and
submit it for publication to two bar journals. St. Paul
Reinsurance Co. Ltd. v. Commercial Fin. Corp., 198 F.R.D. 508,
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