Idiot Attorney, Part Deux

We had the hearing at 2:00 p.m. today. The idiot attorney showed up. It was pretty funny at first. The judge started off the hearing by saying to the idiot attorney, "Yes, you are the guy who wants sanctions upon sanctions upon sanctions."

The idiot attorney started off by telling the judge that I had not served him with the opposition papers. The judge asked me if I had served him. I said, "Yes, your honor. My office manager and my paralegal are 5 minutes up the street on Broadway and if the court wants to hear testimony, they will come in and testify that we did in fact serve him."

The judge then turned to the idiot attorney and asked him if he wanted a continuance in order to prepare a response to the opposition that I had filed. The judge said, "Do you want to drive all the way back up here from San Diego (a good 2 hour commute) to come back to argue about this?"

The idiot attorney blustered for a second and then said no, he didn't want to have to drive all the way back here to argue this a second time. (He wasn't an idiot for this brief second.)

Then, the attorney became a idiot again (as I thought he would, which is why I brought in the recent spate of emails as evidence) and told the judge that I had not agreed that I would pay he sanctions (as I thought he would say) and that he had to drive all the way up from San Diego to "take me to task" in court for my refusal.

I, however, had brought in the emails that he and I had exchanged wherein I had told him that if he was going to accept the court's tentative ruling, I would abide by the ruling. I gave them to the judge to read.

The judge said his tentative ruling stood, and we were dismissed.

I had a short 5-minute drive back to my office. The idiot had a 2-hour drive back to his hovel.