Church of Scientology Wants Someone Else Punished for Making Stuff Up

1. Does a court have discretion to ignore an attorney’s admitted abuse of artificial intelligence that violated the California Rules of Court, or is the court required to resolve whether to sanction that attorney and explain the reasoning for its decision? 2. Does it matter that the party demanding sanctions reportedly teaches people that they are afflicted by disembodied souls that were stolen 75 million years ago by the Emperor Xenu, ruler of the Galactic Confederacy, who brought billions of his subjects to Earth in spaceships that looked like DC-8s, put them around volcanoes he then blew up with hydrogen bombs, releasing the souls and causing problems to this day that only expensive Scientology classes can solve? The first of these questions is taken from the petition for review in Bixler v. Church of Scientology International, now pending before the California Supreme Court. The second one is just a question I personally have. As Law360 reported on June 26, the Church of…