A state appeals court has ordered ex-lawyer Richard Dangler Jr. of Sacramento to pay $25,000 in sanctions for operating “a ‘writ mill’ where law students and disbarred lawyers worked without supervision in filing pointless petitions for paying inmates”. The attorney had filed “a series of what he conceded were ‘patently frivolous and contemptuous’ habeas corpus petitions. Dangler resigned from the State Bar in May with charges pending against him.” (Jill Duman, “Court Says Ex-Lawyer Put Students to Work in Writ Mill”, The Recorder, Sept. 3).
Calif. court shutters habeas “writ mill”
A state appeals court has ordered ex-lawyer Richard Dangler Jr. of Sacramento to pay $25,000 in sanctions for operating “a ‘writ mill’ where law students and disbarred lawyers worked without supervision in filing pointless petitions for paying inmates”. The attorney had filed “a series of what he conceded were ‘patently frivolous and contemptuous’ habeas corpus […]
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