National Employment Lawyers Association, Illinois March 2000
The Honorable Judge rebuked the defendant attorneys for Health Care Plan for filing a motion for summary judgment in a race discrimination brought by Uche Asonye.
Before defendant filed the motion, Asonye had asked the judge to allow the parties to make submissions to chambers to determine whether a summary judgment motion was appropriate. After reviewing the material, the judge advised defendant against filing the motion, but defendant did so anyway.
The motion was so ill-considered and filled with self-hypnosis with respect to the evidence, the judge stated, that sanctions against the defendants counsel might be warranted-even if the case went to trial and plaintiff lost.