Bloomberg Law
Feb. 1, 2017, 9:52 PM UTC

Flinging Iced Coffee at Deposition Gets Lawyer $250 Fine

Samson Habte
Samson Habte
Legal Editor

A lawyer who threw a cup of coffee at her opposing counsel during a deposition must pay $250 to cover the damages she caused, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held Jan. 28 (Loop AI Labs Inc. v. Gatti, 2017 BL 25485, N.D. Cal., 15-cv-00798-HSG (DMR), 1/27/17).

The sanction fight arose during an intellectual property lawsuit that an artificial intelligence company filed against a former employee and industry competitor.

The court’s order is a cautionary tale of how contentious relationships between opposing counsel can boil over, unless cooler heads prevail.

The sanctioned ...

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