Friday, November 30, 2012

Florida case involving Prenda lawyers dismissed for attempted fraud upon the Court

In a Tampa, Florida, case, Sunlust Pictures v. Nguyen, the Court dismissed the case for several reasons, including attempted fraud upon the Court. The Court held:

The case is dismissed for failure to appear at this hearing, for failure to present a lawful agent, for attempted fraud on the Court by offering up a person who has no authority to act on behalf of the corporation as its corporate representative, and the Court will hear, by motion, a motion for sanctions and fees against this Sunlust entity and everyone affiliated with it, including a motion against Mr. Wasinger for his purposeful failure to appear at this hearing.

And a motion will also be heard on Mr. Duffy for his lack of candor in relation to his connection with this matter based upon the representation of Mr. Torres that he was contacted by the Prenda Law Group or Prenda Law, Inc. for the purpose of being retained as local counsel in this case and that was not presented to the Court in this purported correspondence. The case is dismissed.

I intend to advise the other Judges in the Courthouse of the nature of this matter and may refer this matter to the Florida Bar for further proceedings.
Transcript of November 27th hearing.pdf

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Ray Beckerman, PC

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ray, do I dream, or is this an example of particularly shady dealings on the part of plaintiff and their purported counsel?

--Quiet Lurker

Anonymous said...

Unbelievable!
The transcript reads like a good short story finale in the courtroom when the good (non corporate) civilian wins in the end.
Alter_Fritz can totally imagine this court transcript actually has being a storyboard for some new Matlock episode finale!

Kudos and Hattip to the judge in this case for being so insisting about the shady (courtroom ) business practise by these "adult entertainment" plaintiffs!!

--
A_F

Justin Olbrantz (Quantam) said...

Lurker:

John Steele has long been at the forefront of innovation in the field of unethical and possibly illegal legal tactics.

Anonymous said...

@Justin Olbrantz --

That comment is worthy of gales of maniacal laughter.

--Quiet Lurker