This past May, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York issued a blistering 65-page opinion tossing a plaintiff’s suit against the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and labeling it a “fraud upon the court.”
The court noted that the motion “raises the thorny issue of where vigorous advocacy ends and punishable disregard of the facts begins.
Counsel’s pursuit of this lawsuit in the face of mounting evidence indicating his client was lying is certainly questionable and borders on unreasonable…
http://www.medialawmonitor.com/2016/07/documentary-interviewee-hit-with-sanctions-for-making-false-allegations-against-center-for-investigative-reporting/