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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Feb. 2, 2011

Plaintiffs' Lawyer on Dole Case Sanctioned

A plaintiffs' lawyer is now $4,500 poorer after being sanctioned for violating a court's order protecting the identity of a witness who testified to helping perpetrate a fraud against Dole Food Co.


By Ciaran McEvoy


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - A plaintiffs' lawyer was sanctioned $4,500 Monday for publicly disclosing the identity of a confidential witness in a long-running lawsuit stemming from Dole Food Co.'s use of a harmful pesticide on its Nicaraguan banana farms.


At a two-hour hearing, 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Victoria G. Chaney ordered Oakland-based sole practitioner Steve Condie to pay the sum within...

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