Both sides chided

In this unpub from 2/1 today, both sides are called out for incivility: 

In the trial court, as on appeal, both counsel have spent more time attacking one another than setting forth legal argument.  For example, LMF’s appellate brief accuses Guzman and her counsel of “inan[ity]” (italics omitted) and telling “blatant[] untru[ths].”  Guzman’s counsel responded by accusing LMF and its counsel of “outright lying” and “criminality . . . best described as pathological.”  “[C]ounsel would be well advised to refrain from [such] incivility in the future.”  (WasteXperts, Inc. v. Arakelian Enterprises, Inc. (2024) 103 Cal.App.5th 652, 667.)  “Ad hominem attacks and other invective detract from counsel’s legal arguments, signal inappropriate personal embroilment in the dispute, and indicate an inability to engage in the reasoned analysis the courts need and counsel’s clients deserve.”  (Ibid.)