{"id":5103,"date":"2004-11-02T08:58:43","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/11\/02\/urgent-plea-to-the-ballot-bar"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:17","slug":"urgent-plea-to-the-ballot-bar-no-frivolous-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/11\/02\/urgent-plea-to-the-ballot-bar-no-frivolous-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"urgent plea to the Ballot Bar: no frivolous lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2631'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">See <A href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/cpr\/mrpc\/rule_3_1.html\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>Model Rule 3.1<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">; <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/rules\/frcp\/Rule11.htm\"><STRONG><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"2\">Fed. Rule 11<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">; <EM>cf<\/EM>. <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ernietheattorney.net\/ernie_the_attorney\/2004\/11\/its_election_ti.html\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"2\">Ernie<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">; <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/archives\/001651.html\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"2\">Walter<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">.&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/hawkredsmall.gif\" alt=\"hawk red small\" \/><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\">(<FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Tell your client: you need facts <EM>and<\/EM> law <EM>and<\/EM> good faith)<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/pennysm.gif\" alt=\"penny sm\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/pennysm.gif\" alt=\"penny sm\" \/><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">&nbsp;<EM>. . . what would <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/09\/04#a2111\">Lincoln<\/A> do?&nbsp; how about <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/10\/08#a328\">Shakespeare<\/A>?<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM><STRONG><FONT color=\"red\">p.s.<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM>&nbsp; Click <A href=\"http:\/\/www.demsjapan.jp\/haiku\">here<\/A> for a page&nbsp;of rather well-<FONT color=\"black\">done&nbsp;<\/FONT><FONT color=\"black\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.demsjapan.jp\/haiku\"><FONT color=\"black\"><STRONG>political haiku<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><STRONG> <\/STRONG>(actually, mostly <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/07\/23#a1846\"><FONT color=\"black\">senryu<\/FONT><\/A>)<\/FONT><FONT color=\"black\"> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">from Democrats Abroad\/Japan:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><EM><STRONG>p.p.s.<\/STRONG><\/EM>&nbsp; Wee-hours of election night post is <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/11\/03#a2638\">here<\/A>.<\/FONT><\/DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See Model Rule 3.1; Fed. Rule 11; cf. Ernie; Walter.&nbsp; (Tell your client: you need facts and law and good faith) &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;. . . what would Lincoln do?&nbsp; how about Shakespeare? &nbsp; p.s.&nbsp; Click here for a page&nbsp;of rather well-done&nbsp;political haiku (actually, mostly senryu) from Democrats Abroad\/Japan: &nbsp; p.p.s.&nbsp; Wee-hours of election night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1kj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13544,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/13544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}