A New York lawyer who responded sarcastically to a Second Circuit judge during an oral argument in 2019 and was then removed from the courtroom by security officers was publicly reprimanded by the court’s grievance committee.
Even if Todd Bank “believed that the judge’s questions were unreasonable, which the record does not suggest, his obligation as a member of this Court’s bar was to respond in a civil manner,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s grievance panel said Monday.
In December 2019, Bank was removed from the courtroom after several comments to a judge, including, “I see ...
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