Odds and Ends
Legal Pad reports on a stiff reminder about verifying your declarations and evidence before the Ninth Circuit. A Special Master recommends sanctions and attorneys fees and costs against plaintiff attorneys for submitting knowingly unverified and questionable translations of a writ of judgment issued by a Nicaraguan Court in an attempt to enforce a judgment against Shell Oil Company and Dole Food Company here in the U.S. According to the Special Master's report and recommendations (.pdf), the attorneys knew that the "translation" provided to them by a third party was not an accurate representation of the actual judgment and yet they failed to bring it to the attention of the Ninth Circuit.
Another interesting tidbit -- The Second District decided to rehear their February decision in In re Rachel L., 08 C.D.O.S. 2453 (more commonly known as the case that took down home schooling).
