{"id":107652,"date":"2025-02-04T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/04\/want-to-annoy-a-federal-judge-file-this-kind-of-motion\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:03:04","slug":"want-to-annoy-a-federal-judge-file-this-kind-of-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/04\/want-to-annoy-a-federal-judge-file-this-kind-of-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Annoy A Federal Judge? File This Kind Of Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

\"\"If I had to rank motions I dislike the most, Rule 12, that motion to strike has got to be up there. And I would say, scandalous or impertinent matters in your pleadings are really the standard. We shouldn\u2019t be striking a class action complaint at this stage, with no discovery and without determining whether the viability of the class action can develop.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 At the recent Miami Law Class Action & Complex Litigation Forum, Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II explained<\/a> to a room of attorneys the exact kind of motions that piss him off. Judge Roy K. Altman agreed, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever granted one.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"KathrynKathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Want To Annoy A Federal Judge? File This Kind Of Motion<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"If I had to rank motions I dislike the most, Rule 12, that motion to strike has got to be up there. And I would say, scandalous or impertinent matters in your pleadings are really the standard. We shouldn\u2019t be striking a class action complaint at this stage, with no discovery and without determining whether the viability of the class action can develop.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 At the recent Miami Law Class Action & Complex Litigation Forum, Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz II explained<\/a> to a room of attorneys the exact kind of motions that piss him off. Judge Roy K. Altman agreed, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever granted one.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"KathrynKathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @[email\u00a0protected].<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I had to rank motions I dislike the most, Rule 12, that motion to strike has got to be up there. And I would say, scandalous or impertinent matters in your pleadings are really the standard. We shouldn\u2019t be striking a class action complaint at this stage, with no discovery and without determining whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5243-1-scaled-e1623338814705-300x275-7VWarK.jpeg?fit=300%2C275&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}