Judges can strip a lawyer of a case and threaten their license.
Evidence
At the very least, the judge would censure him and order him to pay a big fine. But Skinner could do much worse. It was within the judge’s power to remove him from the case, and then to send the matter to the Board of Bar Overseers with the recommendation that his license to practice law be suspended. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 1238
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the escalating sanctions available to a federal judge — censure, fine, removal from the case, referral to the Board of Bar Overseers — the concrete stakes that make procedural discipline coercive.
- XREF: connects to: Judges also sanction defendants for disrespect toward legal agents — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 908; Repeated exposure to attorney misconduct numbs judges into treating fraud as routine. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 3110; Judges can only rule on cases that litigants bring before them — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 593 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Judges also sanction defendants for disrespect toward legal agents
#expands(1.00) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 908 - Repeated exposure to attorney misconduct numbs judges into treating fraud as routine.
#complicates(1.00) — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 3110 - Judges can only rule on cases that litigants bring before them
#complicates(0.95) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 593 - Attorneys draft jury instructions that judges select among and may reject with appealable error
#complicates(0.95) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1403 - Judges must sometimes initiate settlement talks lawyers avoid for fear of appearing weak.
#complicates(0.95) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2249