Attorney Orly Taitz files motion to withdraw as lawyer for Capt. Connie Rhodes

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer ^ | Sept. 28, 2009 | ALAN RIQUELMY

[vikk]

Attorney Orly Taitz, a national figure in the “birther” movement and lawyer for an Army captain who sought to stop her deployment to Iraq on arguments that President Barack Obama can’t legitimately hold office, has filed a motion to withdraw as the captain’s lawyer.

Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes, filed her latest motion Saturday. It cites two court documents as reasons for withdrawing from the case — a Sept. 18 order from U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land threatening $10,000 in sanctions against Taitz and a letter purportedly signed by Connie Rhodes, which asks for Taitz to be removed as her attorney.

“In order to defend herself, the undersigned counsel will have to contest and potentially appeal any sanctions order in her own name alone, separately from the plaintiff, by offering and divulging what would normally constitute inadmissible and privileged attorney-client communications,” Taitz states. “The undersigned attorney will also offer evidence and call witnesses whose testimony will be adverse to her (former) client’s most recently stated position in this case.”

It appears, however, that Taitz didn’t sign her motion. Court records filed Monday state that the motion must be filed again because Taitz didn’t sign it.

[browardchad]

The ‘signing’ is not exactly as it appears. Today’s pleadings are filed electronically and so is the signature. One needs a pin number to file and needs to be adept at using the court’s system to performing the filing.

Oh, please. All it takes is "/s/" before the sig, then a typed name.

It doesn't require a Rhodes scholar, all she needed to do was look at the submissions of the defense, or her reluctant co-counsel, Kreep.

[Freedom2specul8]

:) The first time my son used notebook paper, he used the backside of the paper. He did put his name on the upper right corner though.

[OldDeckHand]

"Why won’t a strong high profile attorney take this case on?"

Competent, high-profile litigators don't take cases that are DOA. It's just the way it is.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Fallacy of omitted case

[Non-Sequitur]

We better watch to make sure she does not tried to get Gary Kreep kicked off the case in front of Judge Carter.

She's tried, unsuccessfully. Basically there are two different cases, and if it goes to court then they'll be tried simultaneously.

[browardchad]

Land has responded to Orly:

O R D E R

Plaintiff’s counsel filed a motion to withdraw as counsel for Plaintiff (Doc. 20). Plaintiff apparently does not object to such withdrawal. (See Doc. 18.) Accordingly, counsel’s motion to withdraw is granted with the following conditions. Counsel remains subject to the jurisdiction of this Court for purposes of the Court’s show cause sanctions order and related proceedings, and Plaintiff remains subject to the jurisdiction of this Court for purposes of the Court’s previous order casting the court costs upon Plaintiff.

The Court further notes that this order shall not be construed to authorize Plaintiff’s counsel to breach any attorney-client privilege that may exist due to counsel’s representation of Plaintiff. Moreover, the Court notifies counsel that in issuing its show cause sanctions order, the Court did not rely upon the letter sent by Plaintiff purporting to discharge counsel (Doc. 18), nor does the Court intend to rely upon that document in future proceedings regarding sanctions against Plaintiff’s counsel. Whether Plaintiff expressly authorized counsel to file the motion for reconsideration is irrelevant to the Court’s determination of whether the filing was legally frivolous.

IT IS SO ORDERED, this 28th day of September, 2009.

Translation: Orly still has to show cause why she shouldn't be sanctioned to the tune or $10,000. And she had better think twice before divulging any attorney/client privileged communication between herself and Rhodes. (Who she rather obviously wants to make the scapegoat in this.)

[Freedom2specul8]

I never doubted the eligibility of previous presidents. Just like I assumed we'd never be attacked by terrorists. The world has changed. Gov 101... how does one abide by the constitution? Take the word of the dnc? HA, take the word of anyone? NOT! Not anymore.... it needs to be transparent.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articleii.html

No person except:

• a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States,
• at the time of the adoption of this Constitution,
• shall be eligible to the office of President;
• neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

How does one establish eligibilty as required by the constitution?

Who is in charge of vetting the presidential candidates?

[Non-Sequitur]

Who is in charge of vetting the presidential candidates?

Let us know when you find out.

[Freedom2specul8]

My opinions and assumptions about the protection of our country changed after 9-11. Acorn, blackpanthers, seiu, and thugs etc underline my concerns. I think we all should agree that we must protect ourselves better than before.

[Freedom2specul8]

You don’t know? How lame does that feel?

[choirboy]

If Kreep is not also a plant, though if he’s not I think we will see a cat fight.

I've known Gary Kreep for many years. He's one of the good guys. Sharp and tough.

[vikk]

Oh, good lord. She’s going to breach attorney-client anyway, even though he told her not to. I can feel it. This is going to get ugly...

[little jeremiah]

The ‘signing’ is not exactly as it appears. Today’s pleadings are filed electronically and so is the signature. One needs a pin number to file and needs to be adept at using the court’s system to performing the filing. You may be a great lawyer but electronically challenged when it comes to these ministerial tasks. I’m not trying to make up excuses for not getting it right since a lawyer should know how to do it, but anyone who has worked with computers and electronic submissions knows what I am talking about. Some people are simiply more computer literate than others. In addition, most lawyers have staff to do such things, but you won’t find high priced lawyers running after the kind of litigation Orly takes on because there is no rich client willing to pay the fee. On the other hand, look what Obama’s personal lawyers are charging for their services. They can afford to have an army of electronic wizards and proof readers supporting their efforts. In addition, doesn’t it make you feel all warm and fuzzy to know that there are three high priced government lawyers opposing her in the Keyes case who have a limitless staff of bureaucrats getting paid with our taxpayer dollars to defend Obama for free.

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Excellent comments that bear repeating.

[little jeremiah]

Many of them are rooting for the other side. Otherwise they wouldn’t be so happy at real or perceived setbacks, or so silent when the team fighting 0bama gains ground.

[Non-Sequitur]

You don’t know? How lame does that feel?

Not lame at all, since I'm aware of the fact that there is nobody who is tasked by law with vetting presidential candidates. How about you?

[WOSG]

“Looks like the ACORN checks cleared over the weekend and their stooges are back at FR.”

Looks like the typical shoot-the-messenger response is being used by the true-birther-believers.

[nathanbedford]

Orly is clearly an outclassed, outmatched amateur in way over her head

That is an assessment of Dr. Tietz has with which I hardly agree. In fact, it is an assessment which I made a month ago in our exchange on a different thread. I repeated my initial post from that thread here but I see that, although you now agree with the substance of it, you still have not come to the conclusion which the facts warrant.

No doubt one month hence after some other flareup I will be bringing Dr. Orly Taitz to your attention and you will no doubt remain steadfast in your determination to shackle the conservative movement to her.

Dr. Orly Taitz is a moonbat and if she accomplishes anything at all it will be purely as a truffle found by a pig. She does not need our endorsement, we need to separate ourselves from her just as I recommended to you one month ago.

[nathanbedford]

Orly is clearly an outclassed, outmatched amateur in way over her head

That is an assessment of Dr. Tietz has with which I hardly agree. In fact, it is an assessment which I made a month ago in our exchange on a different thread. I repeated my initial post from that thread here but I see that, although you now agree with the substance of it, you still have not come to the conclusion which the facts warrant.

No doubt one month hence after some other flareup I will be bringing Dr. Orly Taitz to your attention and you will no doubt remain steadfast in your determination to shackle the conservative movement to her.

Dr. Orly Taitz is a moonbat and if she accomplishes anything at all it will be purely as a truffle found by a pig. She does not need our endorsement, we need to separate ourselves from her just as I recommended to you one month ago.

[rxsid]

Ditto that!

[WOSG]

This scenario is theoretically possible but not likely. Far more likely is a simple explanation that Barack Obama received an ordinary birth certificate as is normally issued upon live birth in a Honolulu hospital. But that is only a likelihood. Therefore, I believe that we should maintain an open mind and a steadfast insistence that Obama produce the underlying documents which would settle the provenance of the Certificate of Live Birth.

That has been a reasonable position all along.

However, we havenow been through multiple forged Kenyan birth certs, the fact that "Obama's Grandma says he was born in Kenya" was actually a distortion from a spliced-up interview, attempts to nitpick the birth cert # that actually only confirms its a valid one, simliar critiques of newspaper announcements that have actually confirmed the validity of them. So we need to get back to a simple "the official story is considered valid based on evidence thus far until a shred of *real* evidence to the contrary crops up." None has.

It would be great to see the original birth certificate, but we need to get off the narrative that lack of it indicates a deep dark secret or a foreign birth. A lot of people have invested a lot of energy into proving or showing Obama wasn't born in Honolulu, yet every additional piece of data has ended up confirming the 'official story' that he was indeed born in Honolulu on Aug 4, 1961. It remains just a likelihood, but is more of a '99.99%' likelihood than a 50/50 one.