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Sidney Powell Handed Win After Judges Dismiss Disciplinary Effort by Texas State Bar
Epoch Times ^ | 4/19/24 | By Jack Phillips

Posted on 04/20/2024 9:07:42 AM PDT by CFW

Sidney Powell, a lawyer who filed lawsuits after the 2020 election, got a win in Texas after an appeals court ruled that the Texas bar did not prove that she engaged in misconduct or fraud.

A panel of judges on the Fifth District of Texas Court of Appeals in Dallas ruled Wednesday that the state bar’s arguments lacked merit and evidence. They found that state bar prosecutors “employed a ’scattershot' approach to the case” that had alleged Ms. Powell did not have a reasonable basis to file lawsuits that challenged the 2020 election’s outcome in battleground states.

“The Bar employed a ‘scattershot’ approach to the case, which left this court and the trial court ‘with the task of sorting through the argument to determine what issue ha[d] actually been raised,'” Justice Dennise Garcia wrote in the court’s ruling. “Having done so, the absence of competent summary judgment compels our conclusion that the Bar failed to meet its summary judgment burden.” A separate court had sided with Ms. Powell in the case last year, finding “numerous defects” in the evidence presented by the State Bar of Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline. The court also found that the bar couldn’t provide evidence that she filed frivolous lawsuits.

“Under these circumstances and on this record, we conclude the trial court did not err in granting Powell’s no-evidence motion for summary judgment,” the appeals court wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2020election; bar; kracken; sidneypowell; texas
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The left thinks that having a legal opinion different from those of government agencies is sufficient reason for disbarment.

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Sidney Powell Handed Win After Judges Dismiss Disciplinary Effort by Texas State Bar An appeals court issue

1 posted on 04/20/2024 9:07:42 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

I’m still waiting for The Kraken, my own self.


2 posted on 04/20/2024 9:09:08 AM PDT by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: OKSooner

Me too.


3 posted on 04/20/2024 9:10:13 AM PDT by del griffith
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To: CFW

Go, Sidney!!

Congrats!


4 posted on 04/20/2024 9:15:26 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: CFW

Time to file a bar complaint against the state disciplinary folks for their frivolous action against Sidney Powell.


5 posted on 04/20/2024 9:15:44 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: CFW

“did not prove that she engaged in misconduct or fraud.”

YThere was no Kraken — that is fraud.


6 posted on 04/20/2024 9:18:12 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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The left thinks that having a legal opinion different from those of government agencies is sufficient reason for disbarment.

Even more concerning, the Texas Bar thinks that.

7 posted on 04/20/2024 9:21:46 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Carriage Hill

Exactly


8 posted on 04/20/2024 9:22:08 AM PDT by Oystir ( )
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To: Carriage Hill; Oystir
There was no Kraken — that is fraud.

Being wrong and being fraudulent aren't two different things?

9 posted on 04/20/2024 9:29:27 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

“Being wrong and being fraudulent aren’t two different things?”

Could be the same, and could be different. Depends upon the circumstance of usage and intent.


10 posted on 04/20/2024 9:34:41 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: CFW

So what is the penalty to be imposed on the state bar prosecutors for abusing their position and victimizing Powell?


11 posted on 04/20/2024 9:34:41 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Yup.


12 posted on 04/20/2024 9:41:36 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: OKSooner

My recollection is that the Trump election challenges were not ever heard in court, but were tossed out on various technicalities, e.g., “lack of standing” or missed deadlines. No judge wanted to hear the evidence because they feared what might happen to them if they ruled in favor of Trump.


13 posted on 04/20/2024 9:48:14 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

She’s a poor mans Adam Schiff.


14 posted on 04/20/2024 9:50:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: CFW

Interesting how the left can lie, defame and libel with impunity, but anybody on the right is prosecuted/persecuted - while being denied the ability to defend themselves and being denied access to exculpatory information and evidence . . .


15 posted on 04/20/2024 9:53:19 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: Steve_Seattle

Damn straight! How many times have we heard “there’s no proof” or “the allegations of fraud have been debunked” by the left, while, at the same time they claim FJB was exonerated by Robert Hur?


16 posted on 04/20/2024 9:56:59 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: FreeReign

Ms. Kraken wasn’t wrong. She was fraudulent.


17 posted on 04/20/2024 10:13:06 AM PDT by Oystir ( )
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To: Oystir

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.
What unfair or unlawful gain did Ms. Powell receive, and which person(s) and legal right(s) was she supposed, by you, to have deprived others?
Just asking for a friend.


18 posted on 04/20/2024 10:26:57 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Nihil, sine deo)
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To: Oystir
She was fraudulent.

A Texas court last year and now the Fifth District of Texas Court of Appeals doesn't agree with you.

19 posted on 04/20/2024 10:33:21 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

You haven’t been paying attention to her career - including General Flynn’s case.


20 posted on 04/20/2024 10:36:15 AM PDT by Oystir ( )
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