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Thu Aug 17, 2017, 09:31 PM Aug 2017

Utah Supreme Court upholds disbarment order against lawyer who filed barrage of 'bizarre' motions

For years, Utah attorney Susan Rose received warnings about the number and quality of the motions she was filing in her cases.

One judge made note of Rose’s “constant stream of motions, corrections to motions, amendments to motions, refiling of motions ... and further briefings of motions after oral arguments.”

Judges commenting on her briefs used terms that included “bizarre,” “inscrutable,” “frivolous,” “legally meritless,” “wholly superfluous,” “unresponsive, immaterial, and redundant” and “not based in reality.”

On Tuesday, nearly a decade after formal disciplinary proceedings began, the Utah Supreme Court affirmed an order disbarring Rose for violating professional conduct rules.

Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/08/17/utah-supreme-court-upholds-disbarment-order-against-lawyer-who-filed-barrage-of-bizarre-motions/

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