PHILIP BERG: Finding that a Pennsylvania lawyer had committed a "laundry list of unethical actions," a federal judge has imposed more than $10,000 in sanctions and ordered the lawyer to complete six hours of ethics training.
U.S. District Judge J. Curtis Joyner's 10-page opinion in Holsworth v. Berg is packed with criticism of the conduct of attorney Philip Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa.
"Other attorneys should look to Mr. Berg's actions as a blueprint for what not to do when attempting to effectively and honorably perform the duties of the legal profession," Joyner wrote.
"This court has grown weary of Mr. Berg's continuous and brazen disrespect toward this court and his own clients. Mr. Berg's actions ... are an enormous waste of judicial time and resources that this court cannot, in good conscience, allow to go unpunished," Joyner wrote.
In the suit, Berg is accused of legal malpractice by former clients who claim his failure to respond to an ERISA claim against them led to a default judgment. But the sanctions against Berg stem from his decision to file a third-party counterclaim of fraud against a pension fund that had sued his former clients, according to court papers. Joyner blasted Berg for filing the fraud claim, calling it an "irresponsible decision" because the claim was "utterly barren of any scintilla of legal principles." FULL STORY.
ANDY MARTIN: This Chicago-based egotist refers to himself in all his posts as an "internet powerhouse" and claims a wealth of political and legal experience in Chicago. He also intends to run for public office. His claim to fame is lawsuits filed in Hawaii challenging Obama's place of birth. In an October 27 article, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz reported that Fox News Channel "now expresses regret for booking [Andy] Martin" -- who, as Media Matters for America has noted, has, among other things, referred to a judge as a "crooked, slimy Jew" and accused African-Americans of being "willing to corrupt and abuse their public offices" -- on the October 5 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America. As Media Matters documented, Sean Hannity hosted Martin -- identified by Hannity as an "Internet journalist" -- to make what Hannity called "the explosive claim that [Sen. Barack] Obama's role as a community organizer was a political staging ground perpetuated by the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers." Kurtz wrote: "[Fox News Senior Vice President Bill] Shine says Hannity disagrees with some of Martin's past comments. 'Having that guy on was a mistake,' Shine says. 'We obviously didn't do enough research on who the guest was.'Wow! This guy is too controversial for Hannity and FOX News.
LEO DONOFRIO: Donofrio’s challenge had nothing to do with the birth certificate. In fact, he conceded that he believed that Obama was probably born in Hawaii. He challenged on the basis of Obama being a dual citizen with dual allegiance at birth through his father’s conferred British citizenship - Kenya being under colonial rule in 1961. Of course this requirement was made by the first settlers in order to guarantee that the new President would have been born in America of American citizens since everyone's parents came from another country. Over the years the Congress and Supreme Court have accepted the definition to include anyone born in the United States, no matter their parenthood. If we stuck to the original definition according to the Constitution, then blacks would still be considered 3/5 of a human being.
ORLY TAITZ: This lady is a Russian immigrant claiming to be a dentist, real estate agent, and attorney. She is the craziest and most dangerous of all as she apparently has an unlimited source of funds and spreads hatred and misinformation across the Internet. She ignores the facts about Obama's place of birth and on March 28th in the city of Stockbridge Ga. organized a "Grand Jury" that returned an Indictment against Barack Obama!
"A separate WND investigation into Obama's birth certificate utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic. The investigation also revealed methods used by some of the bloggers to determine the document was fake involved forgeries, in that a few bloggers added text and images to the certificate scan that weren't originally there".
At no point does the August article express any doubt about whether its "forgery experts" could "report conclusively that the electronic image was authentic or that it was a forgery" as Farah claims; it unambiguously and definitively states that "forgery experts found the document to be authentic."
As for the claim that "At no time did Obama ever make his actual birth certificate available to WND - or any other news organization," here's what the August article also stated:
However, FactChecker.org says it obtained Obama's actual birth certificate and that the document was indeed real. The site discredited some of the claims of Internet bloggers, such as that the certificate as viewed in a scanned copy released by Obama's campaign lacked a raised seal. FactChecker.org also established that many of the alleged flaws in the document noted by bloggers were caused by the scanning of the document.
Indeed, FactCheck.org has stated that it has "seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate," adding, "We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship."
Hopefully, we can put this ridiculous issue behind us. Unfortunately, these attorneys and WorldNutDaily are organized and have huge amounts of funds (from what source nobody knows) and will continue to raise hell as long as there are enough nutcases to support them. We just wanted to point out the conspiracy and its intent which is to disrupt our government from properly functioning and to put more money in their deep and dirty pockets.Copyright @ 1998-2009
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Why doesn't he just release his original birth certificate and put this to bed?
ReplyDeleteWow...another pathetic Obamatard trying to dismiss patriots as kooks. You are so in love with Obama that you are afrais of the truth. If, as you say, we are kooks, then I say, it ought to be real simple to get to the bottom of this. Just have Obama provide his real birth certificate, his coillege records and medical records. Guess what Jack? He won't do it! How can you say that a left-wing website like factcheck.org has any credibility? Hawaii officials admit that Obama refuses to release his birth certificate so where did this phony COLB come from? It certainly did not come from Obama or if it did, then why can't he show the REAL birth certificate? You totally ignore all of the other information about Obama that has been uncovered to show he is not a citizen. Why? We are not making a big deal out of nothing here. We are talking about the Constitution. Either Obama qualifies or he does not. It is that simple but people like you don't care about the law. It seems to me that you people are the real KOOKS! You buy into Obama's made-up bullshit, hook, line and sinker without so much as asking for any proof whatsoever. You simply don't care if he is from Mars or Indonesia, he's your guy, your new Messiah who doesn't have the credentials to be a men's room attendant, let alone President. Check his life history. He has been tutored by nothing more than criminals, athiests, muslims and communists his whole life. He has been involved with the lowest of low lifes from day one. He has no real credentials execept as a low-life rabble rouser in Chicago. He has never done anything that amounts to anything and no one can find out much about him because he is hiding his whole life's story. Guess what...I'd settle for another wothless, no-brains jackass like Jimmy Carter again (God forbid) before Obama. At least we knew where Carter came from. This no-nothing, stuttering muslim puppet from outer-space or wherever he came from will NEVER be my President until he proves who he really is and where he really came from. What's the big deal? He can't or won't do it! IF that doesn't make you wonder, then, YOU are a complete moron! However, that goes for most of the Democrats these days and Republicans too. When will you people wake up and relaize this is about America...not some stupid party loyalty thing? If the Democratic party told you to jump off of a bridge...would you do it? My guess is...yes! Wake up dipshit!!!
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ReplyDeleteFact Check did NOT examine or touch the actual original Birth Certificate.
ReplyDeleteIf you read the whole article, they touched and photographed a "Certificate of Live Birth", which is a form supposedly made up from some of the information on the original BC that is "on file" in Hawaii.
A "COLB" is simply a paper promise (a receipt if you will) issued by the state that says they have a recorded long-form BC on file.
Hawaii says they do not release photocopies of the original long-form BCs. However, you would think that in this case they would make an exception, EXCEPT that only Mr. Obama can to make the request, and he has not done so.
Nobody has touched the actual birth certificate and nobody ever will. Hawaii does not release original vault certificates to ANYONE. They release a laser copy or short form. Even if Obama made the request it would be denied.
ReplyDeleteWhat you fail to realize is that the laser copy WHICH IS AN EXACT COPY of the original states that Obama was born in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. If he were born in Paris, France, it would say so.
It is a Certified Copy.
§338-13 Certified copies. (a) Subject to the requirements of sections 338-16, 338-17, and 338-18, the department of health shall, upon request, furnish to any applicant a CERTIFIED COPY of any certificate, or the contents of any certificate, or any part thereof.
(b) Copies of the contents of any certificate on file in the department, certified by the department shall be considered for all purposes the SAME AS THE ORIGINAL, subject to the requirements of sections 338-16, 338-17, and 338-18.
(c) Copies may be made by photography, dry copy reproduction, typing, computer printout or other process approved by the director of health. [L 1949, c 327, §17; RL 1955, §57-16; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §338-13; am L 1978, c 49, §1]
Barack Obama: Born in Hawaii
ReplyDeleteBy Andrew Walden
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, April 01, 2009
A fairly impressive internet industry has sprung up claiming that Obama was born in either Kenya or Indonesia. This is nonsense which distracts from the broadly unexplored story of Obama’s upbringing. This kind of nonsense has emerged because the McCain campaign chose not to raise the many questions about Barack Obama’s numerous hard-left alliances. Barack Obama was born in Hawai'i, August 4, 1961 at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu.
Obama’s birth certificate posted online is exactly the same birth certificate everybody in Hawaii gets from the State Department of Health. It is not forged. There is nothing unusual about the design or the texture. In addition to the birth certificate, the August 13, 1961 Honolulu Advertiser also carries an announcement of Obama’s birth. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin also carries the same announcement. Both papers printed an identical list of birth announcements supplied to them by the Hawaii State Department of Health. Conspiracists have made much of the fact that the Territory of Hawaii gave a phony birth certificate in 1904 to Chinese republican leader Sun Yat Sen for diplomatic reasons. But the modern State of Hawaii has never supplied Certification of Live Birth indicating US birth for foreign-born children.
By refusing media requests for a look at the actual paper birth certificate, Obama’s campaign gave sly backhanded assistance to the forgery hype. The internet release of the birth certificate via hyper-partisan website Daily Kos on June 12 before posting it on a campaign website was likely calculated to fuel the frenzy. This is Obama’s Gramscian strategy designed to redirect the opposition down a blind alley. It was so successful that Hawai'i government offices found themselves inundated with telephone calls from mainland voters in the days before the November 4 election.
Since Hawai'i law forbids the release of birth certificates to anybody not authorized by Barack Obama or his family, Obama further feeds the paranoia by choosing not to grant such permissions. A World Net Daily story claiming Hawai'i’s Republican Governor Linda Lingle ‘sealed’ the birth certificate is totally false. The governor’s office has asked for a retraction. The forgery story was also boosted by video claims that Obama’s Kenyan grandmother, stated that Obama “is a son of this village”—a phrase which can have many different meanings.
For Obama to have been born in Kenya, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. would have had to fly from Honolulu to Mombasa, give birth in a substandard third world hospital, fly back and then somehow arrange for a fraudulent birth certificate to be entered by the State of Hawai'i on August 8, 1961 (at the time governed by Republican William Quinn). They would have also somehow planted the phony birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser (at the time edited by Republican Thurston Twigg-Smith) and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Hawai'i’s current Republican Governor Linda Lingle would also have to be complicit in the cover-up as would all of the leftist 1960s University of Hawaii friends of Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr—among them US Rep Neil Abercrombie.
In 1961, the roundtrip flight to Kenya would have been a very expensive, pointless, and time consuming epic journey for two starving students. Barack Obama Sr. had only been able to come study at UH Manoa with a free ticket on a donated charter flight with other Kenyan students.
Obama benefits from creating an opposition which seems to be standing by the side of the road impotently pointing to a piece of paper as if it could stop 63 million voters from anointing their ‘chosen one’. Birth certificate lawsuit plaintiff Phil Berg is a Democrat and whether he understands it or not, he has done great work on behalf of his party.
It is time for folks to stop being played by the Obama campaign and drop this counter productive ‘phony birth certificate’ nonsense. Obama opponents can find plenty of real material by focusing on the hard-left alliances, stated positions, personnel appointments and policy actions of the Obama administration and of the Democrat-controlled Congress.
OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS VALID
Embossed, signed, paper Certification of Live Birth — "Not released"
ReplyDeleteSo what is this, chopped liver?
http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_5.jpg
http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_7.jpg
Note the words "Certification of Live Birth", Signature and Seal. And that is the only document that has any relevance to Obama's qualifications to be president. Do these nutballs have some kind of fetish about prying into people's private things?
One Lawsuit dismissed?
Ankeny v. Daniels dismissed
Berg v. Obama et al dismissed
Berg v. Obama et al SCOTUS appeal denied
Brockhausen v. Andrade dismissed
Broe v. Reed - dismissed
Cohen v. Obama - dismissed
Connerat v. Browning - dismissed
Donofrio v Wells - dismissed
Donofrio v Wells SCOTUS appeal - denied
Ealey v. Obama - dismissed
Essek v. Obama - dismissed
Herbert v. Obama et al - dismissed
Hollister v. Soetoro - dismissed
Hunter v. Obama - dismissed
Keyes v. Bowen - dismissed
Keyes v. Lingle - dismissed
Lightfoot v. Bowen - dismissed
Lightfoot v. Bowen SCOTUS appeal - denied
Morrow v. Barak Humane Obama - dismissed
Neely v. Obama - dismissed
Roy v. Obama - dismissed
Schneller v. Cortes - denied
Stamper v. US - dismissed
Strunk - Federal NY - dismissed
Strunk - 2nd circuit - denied
Sullivan v. Marshall - dismissed
Terry v. Handel - denied
Welch v. Mukasey et al - dismissed
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz - dismissed
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz SCOTUS Appeal - denied
So that's 30 losses, zero wins and less than a dozen on appeal or awaiting a court date (when they too will be dismissed as frivolous).