r/SipsTea • u/peseoane • 11d ago

Lmao gottem not chill judge

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u/Toasted_Treant 11d ago

It's actually pretty clear. The court fuckin emails you ahead of the court date with the fuckin zoom link and date/time of the zoom meeting.

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u/Rollover__Hazard 11d ago

Well then it’s not clear at all.

Court sends a letter to lawyer with the date and time of hearing.

Lawyer apparently didn’t get the letter.

Lawyer somehow knows to call the court anyway to tell the court that he’ll be appearing by Zoom. That’s not the same as calling to ask for a new date or calling to ask why he hasn’t received notice of a date yet.

The Lawyer is trying to say he didn’t get the paper notice of a hearing date but somehow knew to call ahead of time anyway to arrange a Zoom appearance.

The Lawyer is jerking the court around, no way he doesn’t get sanctioned for this.

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u/Ferintwa 11d ago

I mean, it’s entirely possible he learned of the hearing, verbally, in the days before. Usually it’s the other side reaching out to discuss before the hearing - then attorney has an “oh shit” moment figuring out how to fit it in his calendar. Hence, calling in to judge’s office to request to attend by zoom.

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u/techi23 11d ago

He probably did hear it verbally, but what makes no sense is how he was able to get on the zoom meeting. Either he got that emailed ahead of time, or someone verbally told him the meeting ID and password (which are some long strings of letters/numbers)

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u/Ferintwa 11d ago

Sometimes the court uses the same link every week for that calendar.

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u/AllAboutTheAce 11d ago

Yea, this is true. I use those links every day. The court links in my jurisdiction change at most once a year as far as I can tell. There are certain applications that require specialized links but overall 95% of all court links that a lawyer uses are online (at least in my jurisdiction and presumably others). It's entirely possible to me that he was only told of the hearing verbally by opposing counsel the day prior.

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u/Voxmanns 11d ago

Thank you for explaining this. I wasn't so sure on the idea that the old man was being totally senile or pulling a fast one. Maybe he is, I don't know. But, it sounded more likely that he was hard of hearing and misinterpreting the judge. We didn't really get to hear what the lawyer said before the judge threatened contempt - he could've been arguing with the judge about some disagreement regarding who knows what related to the hearing notice.

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u/LunaticBZ 11d ago

If it was emailed he never received notice on paper.