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Reflections on the Duke Reply

By KC Johnson

Duke has filed its reply brief in its longshot demand that the court impose sanctions against attorneys representing the unindicted players and terminate the Duke Lawsuit website. Upon review, Powerline was puzzled by the University?s legal strategy: Setting up this kind of website, and indeed ones that are much more aggressive, is a common thing for plaintiffs to do these days . . . I confess that it has never occurred to me to ask a court to shut such a site down. Lawyers should zealously represent their clients, but it rarely serves a client?s interest to become a laughingstock. Duke?s lawyers, among whom are Clinton administration stalwarts Jamie Gorelick and Seth Waxman, apparently have no such qualms. They seek an order declaring, among other things, that the plaintiffs? website violates local rules against extrajudicial attorney statements...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).