Profanity-Laden Emails Earn Sanctions for California Lawyer (1)

A California plaintiff’s attorney who cursed in emails at opposing counsel representing Allstate Insurance Co. and threatened them with waterboarding and face tattoos must pay $17,808 in sanctions, according to an order from the Central District of California.

Christopher G. Hook “acted in bad faith by sending numerous profanity-laced emails, using discriminatory epithets, and repeatedly threatening physical violence against Allstate’s witnesses, attorneys, and their families purportedly as negotiation tactics,” District Judge Otis D. Wright II said.

Hook plans to appeal Wright’s order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, he said March 2. He declined to answer ...