Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the News

[falafel]

I would be disappointed in CC if the allegations are true.

Oh good.

[Topper]

BYU and UVa grad being excoriated on examination for judicial appointment. He donates lots of time for youth.

https://youtu.be/c-zvNnFjk3Q

https://youtu.be/c-zvNnFjk3Q

[Shaka]

Oh good.

CC has been discussed numerous times on this board and is generally held up as some sort of super-Mormon who has somehow climbed his way into the elite at HBC and the business world. I've always been in awe of the guy. I think it's sad if the allegations are true and he's screwing a fellow member over for personal gain. Even worse if they are truly claiming that they do not have to pay because they signed a contract that they failed to read.

[Topper]

CC has been discussed numerous times on this board and is generally held up as some sort of super-Mormon who has somehow climbed his way into the elite at HBC and the business world. I've always been in awe of the guy. I think it's sad if the allegations are true and he's screwing a fellow member over for personal gain. Even worse if they are truly claiming that they do not have to pay because they signed a contract that they failed to read.

It would be sad if these allegations are true, given his exalted status within the tribe.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

CC has been discussed numerous times on this board and is generally held up as some sort of super-Mormon who has somehow climbed his way into the elite at HBC and the business world. I've always been in awe of the guy. I think it's sad if the allegations are true and he's screwing a fellow member over for personal gain. Even worse if they are truly claiming that they do not have to pay because they signed a contract that they failed to read.

Unless I had a big retainer and I informed CC that he was overwhelmingly likely to lose and the best he could hope for was to knock a few million off of what he owes in a settlement, I wouldn't want to be his attorney in this case.

[falafel]

BYU and UVa grad being excoriated on examination for judicial appointment. He donates lots of time for youth.

https://youtu.be/c-zvNnFjk3Q

This is making the rounds. Poor guy. AT the same time, how did he not do at least a little prep for a hearing like that? Maybe look through a list of common motions, like motion in limine.

[Topper]

This is making the rounds. Poor guy. AT the same time, how did he not do at least a little prep for a hearing like that? Maybe look through a list of common motions, like motion in limine.

Younger abstention is fairly new and for criminal law practitioners and Pullman is old but not invoked very often. The in limine should have been divined just from the Latin.

[creekster]

This is making the rounds. Poor guy. AT the same time, how did he not do at least a little prep for a hearing like that? Maybe look through a list of common motions, like motion in limine.

How could he not know what a motion in limine is? How is that even possible, even if you aren't a litigator?

[Topper]

How could he not know what a motion in limine is? How is that even possible, even if you aren't a litigator?

He barely passed civil procedure? Or Evidence?

Maybe those aren’t required courses at UVA law.

[New Mexican Disaster]

How could he not know what a motion in limine is? How is that even possible, even if you aren't a litigator?

That's hard to wrap your mind around.

[Green Monstah]

I understand the outrage, but 8 years out of law school and I wouldn’t have been able to answer those questions either.

I also would have been prepared for a congressional hearing, however.

You

[Topper]

I understand the outrage, but 8 years out of law school and I wouldn’t have been able to answer those questions either.

I also would have been prepared for a congressional hearing, however.

You

Would you accept a nomination for a job for which you would not be qualified?

[LVAllen]

I understand the outrage, but 8 years out of law school and I wouldn’t have been able to answer those questions either.

I also would have been prepared for a congressional hearing, however.

You

Because he's been busy as a member of the FEC since 2008? And before then, he practiced campaign finance law and counseled a House committee? I can guarantee you, none of those topics have arisen in his practice. That doesn't make him an incompetent lawyer.

And I'm not entirely certain how one goes about preparing for a Senate hearing, when pretty much every conceivable question is fair game.

[Topper]

Because he's been busy as a member of the FEC since 2008? And before then, he practiced campaign finance law and counseled a House committee? I can guarantee you, none of those topics have arisen in his practice. That doesn't make him an incompetent lawyer.

And I'm not entirely certain how one goes about preparing for a Senate hearing, when pretty much every conceivable question is fair game.

He is no general practitioner, no trial lawyer and no litigator, yet he was appointed to serve as a US District Court judge. This a court of general jurisdiction, requiring knowledge of the FRCP and FRE for every hearing, as well as the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. If you don't have a working familiarity with those, you can't do your job.

It doesn't make him incompetent for the FEC, but it does for the US District bench. Litigants deserve better than a novice with no litigation experience. One doesn't need to be a world beater to be a competent judge, but zero experience?

[All-American]

I understand the outrage, but 8 years out of law school and I wouldn’t have been able to answer those questions either.

I also would have been prepared for a congressional hearing, however.

You

I'd have missed the Pullman question. Only out of luck did I happen to know the Younger question, and I know enough to know that it's a discrete issue that rarely comes up and when it does it is an easy issue. I don't care that he didn't know those questions.

The motion in limine thing bothered me though.