When the judge asked to see a copy of these cases, Lee was unable to give him one from her papers, so the judge looked them up online himself, sometimes finding they did not seem to exist in any legal database, or were irrelevant, or did not show what Lee argued. Lee’s factum, for example, cited a case as a precedent for when a court removed an estate trustee. “In fact, the opposite is true. The court did not remove the estate trustees,” Judge Myers wrote, after reading it.
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