Judge Land Fines Orly Taitz $20K, File Copy of Order with State Bar of CA

United States District Court (Georgia) ^ | 10/13/2009 | Judge Clay Land

[DaGman]

"Or perhaps an eccentric citizen has become convinced that the President is an alien from Mars, and the courts should order DNA testing to enforce the Constitution.7 Or, more to the point, perhaps the Court should issue a nationwide injunction that prevents the U.S. Army from sending any soldier to Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere else until Ms. Taitz is permitted to depose the President in the Oval Office. The federal courts were not established to resolve such purely political disputes or to assist in the pursuit of a political fishing expedition, particularly when that intrusion would interfere with the ability of the U.S. Army to do its job."

The judge nails it here.

[jamese777]

No offense, but what makes you think a schoolyard mentality is applicable here?
Orly got a poorly presented case dismissed by a judge who told her so. Judges get to do that. Professionals don’t respond with a hysterical screed accusing the judge of being a traitor. Lawyers that do respond that way can expect, and fully deserve, the treatment Dr. Taitz received.

Just because you support her position doesn’t make it right or her behavior excusable. I would expect and deserve a serious smack down if I ever behaved that way to a court.

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AMEN and for those who don’t know, Clay Land was a conservative Republican state legislator before he became a judge.
Advocates who don’t know how to interact with judges will routinely be slapped down.

[2harddrive]

I agree that IF Orly Taitz HAD done that, it WOULD be wrong. But, the complaints are NOT baseless! They ARE based in fact, and upon settled law. cSummary Judgement with prejudice GRANTED for the Defendent!

[Red Steel]

What are Orly’s appeal options? Anyone know??

She won't be paying this donkey @$$ any time soon. Appeal his sanction along with appealing his decision.

[mojitojoe]

People in glass houses.............

[mojitojoe]

I’m not donating and have no intention of doing so. I admire her tenacity, I do not admire her skills. She should have a team of attorneys and if she can’t get one, then someone else needs to handle it.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

You’re just tempting me to jack this thread to Marrakech all alone, and it ain’t gonna work!
It’s a serious topic. Heck, it’s about Orly Taitz! Show some respect!

[Sibre Fan]

I never hear about Standing being a problem when the Left goes to court. How rare is it when an Abortion, Environmental, or Civil Rights case is dismissed for Standing?

The irony is that most of the standing jurisprudence was developed in the context of preventing "liberal" groups from getting into court. See here for a short list of cases in which standing was denied - most (but not all) of which were brought by liberal groups.

[mojitojoe]

Frank Marshall Davis:

Poem by Barack Hussein Obongo:

POP
Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me;
I stare hard at his face, a stare
That deflects off his brow;
I’m sure he’s unaware of his
Dark, watery eyes, that
Glance in different directions,
And his slow, unwelcome twitches,
Fail to pass.
I listen, nod,
Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,
Beige T-shirt, yelling,
Yelling in his ears, that hang
With heavy lobes, but he’s still telling
His joke, so I ask why
He’s so unhappy, to which he replies...
But I don’t care anymore, cause
He took too damn long, and from
Under my seat, I pull out the
Mirror I’ve been saving; I’m laughing,
Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face
To mine, as he grows small,
A spot in my brain, something
That may be squeezed out, like a
Watermelon seed between
Two fingers.
Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem
He wrote before his mother died,
Stands, shouts, and asks
For a hug, as I shink*, my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; ‘cause
I see my face, framed within
Pop’s black-framed glasses
And know he’s laughing too.

[mojitojoe]

20K is chicken feed.

[mlo]

"You have shown to have a command of the english language."

Certainly. So why would saying "it's too late for vetting" imply anything about what would happen if vetting were to produce a certain result? It doesn't follow.

"I’m sure you already know what the requirements are for becoming a president."

Yes I do.

"The vetting process will show whether a candidate OR an elected official is eligible per requirements for being a president."

What vetting process would that be? You are phrasing it as if it's something that will happen in the future. At least for the 2008 election, that's in the past.

[mquinn]

Taitz is going down the same bad road as that videogame crusader a few years back. Thompson?

[Freedom2specul8]

How many of us even worried about the president being properly vetted before the last election? Did we all not trust the secretary of states to do their jobs? Did we not enjoy how much investigation into the candidates backgrounds by the media? The media just took a press release from the dnc, took it for its word and ran with it. (I use the label press release because the media is an arm of the dnc campain ~smirk) This was/is a very hard lesson.. But hopefully all of us learned from it. Don’t trust the media to investigate the background, or ask important questions about candidates. Demand all of the secretary of states to do their own internal verifiable investigation on behalf of their employers. US!

[BP2]

Hats off to the arrogant & biased Judge Land — he only used the word “birther” three times in this order.

The most-disingenuous part of activist-Judge Land's latest Order is on page 41:

The Court takes no joy in reaching the conclusions it has reached in today’s Order.

No, I'm sorry THIS is the most-disingenuous part of his latest order, on page 42:

While the Court derives no pleasure from its imposition of sanctions upon counsel Orly Taitz...

Remember from Capt Rhodes’ Sept 18 fax (Doc 18)? “I will mail the original copy of this letter once I have arrive in Iraq.”

Other than it seems the Judge has dedicated a team of clerks and interns to piece together this long-winded 43-page sanction, I noticed NO reference in the order that the Court has received a “hard copy” of Capt Rhodes’ Sept 18 letter faxed from Officemax.

Has the court received it yet? I beleive Larry Sinclair said, when interviewing Land's head clerk that he said NOT getting a signed hard copy could be "a problem".

[STARWISE]

I think you probably answered right there.
Curious that you’re so sensitive about it.

Other FReeper attorneys freely disclose it
when they comment, and it lends credibility,
valuable insight and legal reference facts
for the rest of us non-legal types to learn
and digest.

Again, the secrecy is curious and noted.

[mojitojoe]

very nice!

[El Gato]

I’d like to see all of that too.

You can't. According to the Judge you have no Constitutional right to see anything regarding anyone's eligibility to the office of President.

Welcome to peonage.

[humblegunner]

People in glass houses.............

Buy a lot of Windex?

[r9etb]

Whatever.

[SeaHawkFan]

Sanctions will be reversed on appeal. The fact that Obama has spent so much money ti keep his BC hidden is enough evidence that Taitz has not violated Rule 11; and the amount of the fine is outrageous.