Smyth v. City of Oakland (In Re Brooks-Hamilton)

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the lack of legal support for the claims asserted should have been obvious to a competent attorney; the offending legal argument was not only implausible but ridiculous
• measuring the attorney’s conduct “ ‘objectively against a reasonableness standard, which consists of a competent attorney admitted to practice before the involved court’ ”
• upholding sanction and suspension of debtor's counsel
• upholding sanction and suspension of debtor’s counsel
• upholding sanction and suspension of debtor's counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).