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1. One of the litigants, most often Orly, comes up with some hair-brained court submittal whose inevitable failure any competent attorney can predict and explain.

I wonder how much taxpayer money Orly has wasted on her nonsense. I also wonder how many cases with merit have been delayed because of the court's time she has wasted.

Orly's experience seems to be a pretty good indication that the hurdle for getting cases heard in court is waaaaay too low, and that the system lacks sufficient ability to just throw nonsense cases out. Or perhaps the sanctions and penalties for wasting the court's time with nonsense are too low.

Your thoughts?

It's always unfortunate to have a court's time wasted. As you note, there are people with actual cases that need attending. Unfortunately, it's hard to set thresholds for “get the heck out of here” that don't in practice become subject to whim and abuse. All processes, legal or otherwise, struggle with this issue, basically the tyranny of the lowest common denominator.

That said, Orly's conduct is simply unbelievable. It's not only incompetent; it's staggeringly unprofessional. She basically has tantrums in court. Or verbally in her filings. Anyone who thinks that kind of behavior is doing anything to advance their cause is simply deluded.

The most appropriate way to handle that is more use of sanctions and penalties from the stat bar. The fact that we haven't seen more of that is probably a testament to the fact that she was seen as some freak of nature that would surely just fade out. And, to be fair, she has faded out in terms of meaningful legal issues. It's all just a show for the rubes now. That and wall-to-wall tantrums.