In Re Paul G Evans’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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1. ““Evans’ letter, accusing Magistrate Smalkin of incompetence and/or religious and racial bias, was unquestionably undignified, discourteous, and degrading. Moreover, it was written while the Broivn case was on appeal to this Court and was thus properly viewed by the district court as an attempt to prejudice the administration of justice in the course of the litigation. “In addition, Evans’ accusation, which he repeated throughout the proceedings below and has continued to repeat on appeal, was based solely on the magistrate’s single decision against appellant’s client in the Brown case — a decision which this Court ultimately affirmed. We note that Evans never took any action against the Kaplan firm, which he viewed as having acted without Brown’s authorization. More significantly, Evans never made any attempt to investigate the magistrate’s actions in other proceedings or otherwise establish a reasoned basis for the charges of incompetence or bias. Appellant’s failure to substantiate charges as grave as the ones leveled here certainly constitute the making of accusations which he know or reasonably should have known to be false. “Finally, appellant’s failure to investigate, coupled with his unrelenting reassertion of the charges even after this Court’s affirmance in Brown, convincingly demonstrates his lack of integrity and fitness to practice law. A person guilty of such practices is, as at least one court has commented: dangerous in any walk of life and is especially so whe”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Welsh v. Mounger · Attorney Grievance Commission v. DeMaio

2. “[u]njust criticism, insulting language and offensive conduct toward the Judges, personally, by attorneys, who are officers of the Court, which tend to bring the Courts and the law into disrepute and to destroy public confidence in their integrity cannot be permitted.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. MacDraw, Inc. v. CIT Group Equipment Financing, Inc. · 912 So. 2d 871 - Mississippi Bar v. Lumumba

3. ““The repeated assertions by Mr. Evans, even after the dispositive approving opinion of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in the very matters which Mr. Evans contends were erroneously decided by the Magistrate, and his continued and unrelenting groundless assertions that the Magistrate acted out of bias, rather than in compliance with well-established rules of law, make it apparent that Mr. Evans acted originally, and continues to act, in a way that is prejudicial to the administration of justice ... in a way which is undignified and discourteous and degrading to a tribunal in which he appeared in his professional capacity ... and that he has made accusations against a judge or other adjudicatory officer which he know or should have known were false.... In view of the circumstances outlined here, the undersigned member of this Court is of the view that the respondent lacks the necessary mental and character qualifications to continue to practice law in this Court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Attorney Grievance Commission v. DeMaio