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Maybe the judge was incensed, but just not enough to risk killing 3rd parties as a "fuck you" to thedacare. Keep in mind that that at this stage, there is no evidence or fact finding. Either of these parties could be lying their face off in court. This will only be determined after years of lawsuit. Part of the judge's job when it comes to an injunction is to predict the future of a case that hasn't happened, and weigh it against the chance of irreparable harm and death today.

You can punish the litigants and disbar lawyers later, but you can't bring people back from the dead




He probably accepted their claims at face value and assumed they’d be somewhat based in truth, and their subsequent filing would have some reasonable logic that supported those claims.

Their new issue is that no judge will ever give them an ounce of leeway in the future.

I don’t know why a lawyer would trade their professional reputation in exchange for a lawsuit they know will lose, but good on thedacare for finding that idiot.




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