Two Pennsylvania lawyers got a lecture from a federal judge for filing a motion to dismiss an employment discrimination suit that the judge found to be poorly researched and premised on a misreading of the statutes and outdated and overruled case law. The judge said "the motion was ill-conceived due, it seems, to a puzzling failure on the part of the movants to review, much less appreciate, the governing judicial opinions and statutory provisions applicable to the claims presented in the complaint."
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Judge Lectures Lawyers on Research for Motion
The Legal Intelligencer
March 4, 2005
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