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The "filings have led to the Court completely losing trust in" the lawyers involved.

Eugene Volokh | 1.7.2026 8:01 AM

From Judge Walter Rice (S.D. Ohio) Friday in Kettering Adventist Healthcare v. Collier:

At the outset, the Court must address the troubling accusations made by Kettering and the EBG Defendants: that Collier and Scott fabricated support for their arguments…. [T]he volume, extent, and repetitive nature of fabrications by Scott [a self-represented lawyer] and Hewitt [Collier's lawyer] are without parallel in the undersigned's tenure as a trial judge.

Kettering and the EBG Defendants brought these cases to the attention of the Court—and to the attention of Scott and Hewitt—not in passing, but in a footnote that occupied more than one-third of one page, single-spaced and two full pages in the EBG Defendants' Reply. Yet, neither Scott nor Hewitt has acknowledged the misrepresentations, much less attempted to explain why they subsequently inserted them into multiple filings….

[These] are not mere scrivener's errors or the confusing of the holding of a case with dictum. They are not........

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