Litigation & Arbitration
Dec. 23, 2022
Judge drops sanctions threat when lawyer wants to quit over ‘financial ruin’
Attorney Gary W. Gorski argued his client suffered a clear “chilling effect,” in that SB 1327 has prompted his co-counsel to try to exit the case. The judge had said raising the issue of the law’s threat to attorneys was frivolous.
A federal judge has opted not to order sanctions after an attorney argued his co-counsel tried to quit rather than risk “financial ruin” from challenging Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gun law at issue in the case.
“The court has reviewed the parties’ responses to the Order to Show Cause and finds that Rule 11 sanctions are not warranted,” wrote Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez in his minute order on Dec. 20 in Abrera v. Newsom, 2:22-cv-0116...
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