DOJ leaders must explain why attorney used fabricated quotes in court filing
Senior leaders from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of North Carolina must appear at a show-cause hearing this week, after an assistant U.S. attorney filed a response with the court including “fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” and then made “false or misleading statements” about their origins. (Image from Shutterstock)
Senior leaders from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of North Carolina must appear at a show-cause hearing this week, after an assistant U.S. attorney filed a response with the court including “fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” and then made “false or misleading statements” about their origins, according to Bloomberg Law.
The senior leaders must explain why the entire office shouldn’t be held jointly responsible and why the attorney responsible shouldn’t be sanctioned, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers of the Eastern District of North Carolina said in a March 2 order, according to the story.
The action in question happenedd as the U.S. attorney’s office is representing the Department of Defense against a North Carolina pro se litigant challenging a policy that limits availability of GLP-1 weight loss medications for TRICARE for Life participants, according to the story.
A response brief signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rudy Renfer included fabricated quotes and misstated the holdings of several cases, according to Bloomberg Law, and Renfer replied that he “inadvertently included incorrect citations to caselaw from this circuit,” blaming the mistakes on an “inadvertent filing of an unfinalized draft document,” Numbers said in his order.
Numbers stated that “having reviewed the filings in this matter and other submissions by Renfer, the court has serious concerns about the accuracy of certain quotations and representations in Renfer’s filings and the explanation offered for their inclusion,” according to Bloomberg Law.
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