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Kraken Lawyer Tells Judge 'Any Attempt To String Cite [Caselaw] Would Be Insulting To All Involved'

Wait, can you do that?

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Listen, Judge. We’ve got cases backing us up. You wouldn’t believe how many cases we’ve got over here. In fact, it’s so many cases that I’m not even going to waste your time by pointing them out.

While that sounds like something that a pro se litigant might have written, in this case it was Stefanie Lambert Junttila, the local counsel for the Michigan Kraken lawsuit. A motion had been filed asking the court to take judicial notice of the Michigan legislature’s report debunking the facially bonkers election fraud claims that gave rise to the Kraken suits. Junttila responds that the court should ignore the report because the legislature admits that the report is not “exhaustive” and a rogue member of the Michigan House claims that she — and she alone, apparently — is “in receipt of evidence reflecting systematic election fraud in Michigan that occurred in the November 2020 election.”

Italian space lasers? No… but apparently it’s Taiwan and Germany now?

Which brings Junttila to this gem:

[Plaintiffs’ attorneys] speech and their right to petition the government for redress of grievances is a First Amendment right protected by a line of US Supreme Court cases too numerous to mention and any attempt to string cite them here would be insulting to all involved.

I suspect the judge’s response will be, “How about you humor me?”

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As Reuters reporter Brad Heath notes, “this is the whole purpose of an e.g. cite.” With all due respect, the proper Bluebooking for what she’s doing here is “See generally Supreme Court [shrug emoji].”

Remember Junttila kicked off this lawsuit arguing that Rule 11 couldn’t apply if the lawyers didn’t physically sign the electronic filing. For this proposition, she cited a bunch of cases predating electronic filing. Maybe that experience with trying to provide legal support left a bad taste in her mouth so she’s decided to go with this new citation-free approach.

Not sure this is going to work out much better for her though.

PLAINTIFF’S RESPONSE TO INTERVENOR DEFENDANT ROBERT DAVIS’ EMERGENCY MOTION TO TAKE JUDICIAL NOTICE

Earlier: Trump Lawyers Say They Can’t Be Sanctioned Because They Didn’t Sign Anything (P.S. They Totally Signed Things)

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