What Happens When an Attorney Lies or Just Cheats a Little?

Doc of the day: Motion to Strike Overlength Brief

There is not a lot of caselaw out there, not that I found anyhow. It will be interesting to see how the Eighth Circuit treats squeezing words together to extend the available word count.

The brief was written by attorneys at Troutman Pepper and Rose Law Firm. The lead attorney used to be a state solicitor general and is active in the Federalist Society with the District Court Judge being challenged, Judge Lee P. Rudofsky.

Why do I feel like they think they are only playing frat house pranks, and not destroying our nation?

UPDATE: (March 4, 2024) The motion to strike or sanction a represented party for compacting citations together was denied by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The same court denied a pro se litigant to file an overlength brief, which she specifically needed because she cited the record so often, and the local rule about citations specified the form must be “R. Doc. ##, at #”.

What this order means is that litigants may use “R.Doc.## at #” at will. Also “Br.#” for “Brief at #”, and “Vol.#”.