Litigation
Mar. 1, 2016
Attorney who made sexist remark must pay more than $60,000
Judge Paul S. Grewal granted plaintiff's subsequent declarations for costs in Monterey dispute
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A judge's sanction of a lawyer for a sexist remark plus impeding discovery and depositions in a lawsuit regarding a Monterey County Jail suicide will cost the punished lawyer $60,690, according to court filings.
In January, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal ordered Peter S. Bertling, outside counsel for the Monterey-based prison private health care provider California Forensic Medical Group...
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