PHOENIX — Nationally known constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with a federal judge in Phoenix on Wednesday not to find him financially liable for sanctions levied against lawyers who filed what the judge ruled was a frivolous lawsuit on behalf of two failed Republican candidates.
Dershowitz, a retired Harvard Law School professor who has practiced law for 60 years, told U.S. District Judge John Tuchi he was only a consultant in the case, despite being listed as counsel on court pleadings carrying his electronic signature.
Tuchi in December had ordered Dershowitz and the two other attorneys in the case to pay the fees racked up by Maricopa County for defending the case.
