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Democratic lawyer and discredited dossier funder Marc Elias is trying to escape sanctions imposed by federal appeals judges last year for misleading the court.
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday said workers who use cranes attached to boats to load equipment onto offshore oil rigs are…
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday said workers who use cranes attached to boats to load equipment onto offshore oil rigs are…
Fifth Circuit Sanctions Democrat Election Lawyer Marc Elias 14 Mar 2021 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sanctioned Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias and attorneys from his Perkins Coie law firm on Friday for filings in an election law case that “violated their duty of candor to the court.” Elias has been trying to overturn a 2017 Texas law that ended the practice of straight ticket voting, which allowed voters to cast a vote for all of a party’s candidates on the ballot instead of making individual choices in separate down-ticket races. As the Texas Tribunereported i...
Top Democratic Party Election Lawyer Sanctioned by Judge One of the Democratic Party’s top lawyers, Marc Elias, has been sanctioned by a federal court for an ethics violation and for submitting a “redundant and misleading” filing. Marc Elias, an attorney for Perkins Coie LLP who was involved in election-related lawsuits during the 2020 elections, was punished and criticized by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on March 11. Several of his colleagues also were admonished. “Appellees did not notify the court that their latest motion to supplement the record filed on Februar...