A South Florida appellate court has issued an order imposing sanctions against one of Miami's most vocal foreclosure lawyers.

The Third District Court of Appeal sanctioned Bruce Jacobs in a motion issued Wednesday for violating the Florida Bar rule prohibiting “impugning the qualifications or integrity of the judges of this court and of the trial court.”

“That rule provides in relevant part that a lawyer shall not make a statement that the lawyer knows to be false or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning the qualifications or integrity of a judge,'” the order read. The opinion also held that “Mr. Jacobs' conduct in the instant case violated … the most elementary norms of civility and professionalism.”

Read the order:

“While judges and attorneys over the course of their career are subjected to isolated instances of incivility, the instant misconduct is beyond the pale, different not simply in degree but in kind,” it continued.