Just out of curiosity, what would the ramifications be for an attorney who filed an ex parte motion that was full of lies and false statements?
Would there be any? Or do attorneys regularly sign documents full of falsehoods, and then later change them?
I know an attorney can only go with what they know, and if they have been told false things, then they are only going to know false things.
If a motion is filed, is the judge/court at all concerned with the veracity of the document, or do they take it at face value? I mean, can anyone say anything, and it is up to the court process to determine whether it is true? Or when it was filed, would the judge/court go "wait a minute, can you back this up?" Does anyone know?
I ask because the ex parte motion is a telling document. And I wondered how much we can rely on its truth. Please understand, I am not saying I think the lawyer is lying. I know nothing about court stuff, and when I see elsewhere that parties named in the document say the lawyer blatantly lied, I needed to understand how this process works. What would the motives be for a lawyer to lie, would a lawyer ever lie like that, and what would the ramifications be for said lawyer?