Justices won't lift reprimand of outspoken Mich. lawyer

Justices won't lift reprimand of outspoken Mich. lawyer

By The Associated Press
02.21.07

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear attorney Geoffrey Fieger's appeal of a reprimand imposed by the Michigan Supreme Court for Fieger's vulgar comments about state judges.

Fieger, of Southfield, had argued that he had a First Amendment right to use radio appearances to criticize the appellate judges who overturned a $15 million medical-malpractice judgment he had won.

In August 1999, shortly after the decision to overturn the judgment, Fieger called them "three jackass Court of Appeals judges" on his radio talk show. He also likened them to Adolf Hitler and other Nazis and in a separate tirade, declared "war" on the judges and made crude remarks about them.

The Michigan Supreme Court voted 4-3 for the reprimand, saying the comments "were nothing more than personal abuse," not protected political speech. Fieger, who defended assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, was the 1998 Democratic gubernatorial nominee.
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http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=18175

to not engage in this kind of hate speech towards judges hearing his cases.

He will just let his injured client call them a pack of assholes and (SCUMBAGS) in the future

Fieger stated that John Engler looked like the result of miscegenation between farm animals and humans, or words to that effect.

I knew he wouldn't win, but I loved how he was sticking it to that porker Engler.

Read his backstory by googling for the Detroit Free Press series on him. He's not someone with whom I'm proud to share my politics.

Peace.

And I would have LOVED to have him as a Governor.

He would have PROSECUTED Engler for the crimes he committed
when he was in office. Of that I have NO doubt.

I believe we need good-hearted people as leaders, not assholes.

Fieger has a cult of personality surrounding him, agitating to hear the next outrageous thing that comes from his mouth. The anti-authoritarian in me has enjoyed hearing him mix it up with the powers that be. That doesn't make him a leader. It makes him a gadfly, a polarizer, and most revealingly, a self-aggrandizer. In personal life, he behaves atrociously to those around him. That speaks volumes to me.

I'll stick with Granholm. :-)

i was mad when he didnt win, he is cool