Pattis appealed to the Judge for a delay in his suspension from last week.
DENIED. DENIED. DENIED.
My Favorite Quote from the article -- "Norm Pattis ... is warned by Judge Barbara Bellis to not speak over her."
IMO.
A CT judge denies Alex Jones lawyer Norm Pattis’ request to delay his six-month...
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CT judge denies Alex Jones lawyer Norm Pattis’ request to delay his suspension
Rob Ryser Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 10:52 a.m. Facebook Twitter Email
Rob RyserJan. 11, 2023
Alex Jones' attorney Norm Pattis, right, is warned by Judge Judge Barbara Bellis to not speak over her during the Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn. Friday, Sept. 23, 2022.
Christian Abraham/Hearst Connecticut Media
WATERBURY — A Connecticut judge has denied Alex Jones lawyer Norm Pattis’ request to
delay his six-month suspension for sharing protected medical records of Sandy Hook families with other Jones lawyers.
It could not be immediately confirmed Wednesday afternoon whether the decision by state Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis would disqualify Pattis from representing an accused seditionist when that trial begins Thursday in Washington, D.C., but Pattis suggested it would bench him.
“I suspect I will be out of the Joe Biggs case today,”
Pattis tweeted shortly after Bellis’ decision, referring to a suspected ringleader in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol who Pattis represents. “Although unplanned, six months off sounds good about now.”
Pattis, who was suspended for six months by Bellis on Jan. 5 for
sharing medical records of Sandy Hook families with Jones’ lawyers who were not involved in a Connecticut defamation case, hoped not be barred from practicing law in Washington, D.C. under a reciprocal process.
“Attorney Pattis is presently waiting to end jury selection and begin opening arguments in the (trial of Joseph Biggs and others) where a motion for emergency order is pending seeking an order permitting him to remain in that case, and that court has indicated that the decision of this court in the present matter will factor into its decision,” wrote Pattis’ law partner, Kevin Smith, in a motion to Bellis on Wednesday.
Pattis had already informed U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly in an emergency motion to remain on the sedition case that Bellis was “unlikely” to delay Pattis’ suspension, in which case Pattis intended to ask Connecticut Supreme Court for an emergency delay.
Kelly had not ruled on Pattis’ emergency motion by Thursday morning.
Despite Pattis’ tweet suggesting that his six months off from practicing law “sounds good about now,” he appealed to Bellis on Wednesday to delay his suspension, saying that it was taking a toll on him.
Pattis noted that he has “taken down his blog page, and letters of notice have gone out to all of his clients.”
“(T)he injury (Pattis) has suffered and would continue to suffer as a result of immediate implementation of the suspension order is easily calculable and its weight grows by the day like so much interest,” Smith wrote to Bellis on Thursday.
Bellis' refusal to delay Pattis' suspension is the latest fallout from the
$1.5 billion in defamation judgments awarded to Sandy Hook families after jury trials in Texas and Connecticut last year. The judgments, which plunged Jones into
personal bankruptcy, are being appealed.
Pattis
told Hearst Connecticut Media shortly after the Connecticut trial concluded that he was at a crossroads as a result of representing Jones.
The suspension is the first discipline on Pattis’ 30-year record.
“Next stop, Supreme Court,” Pattis tweeted.
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