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In re the Marriage of Amy Haddock and Justin Blu Haddock
District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma · State trial courts · OK · · No. FD-2021-987 · order
On 2026-05-21, in In re the Marriage of Amy Haddock and Justin Blu Haddock, the Tulsa County district court sanctioned counsel $2,000, ordered attorney-fee proceedings, required a knowledge-base audit, and directed bar referral. Counsel filed a motion using authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Disposition
- The court sanctioned counsel $2,000, ordered attorney-fee proceedings, required a knowledge-base audit, and directed bar referral.
- Recorded conduct
- Counsel filed a motion using authorities used for propositions they did not support. — outcome: costs order; actor: lawyer; $2,000
- Canonical record
- Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules
What the court wrote
Verbatim from the court's document (public domain). Ellipses mark omitted text; nothing is paraphrased.
Husband's Motion containedthree citations to nonexistent lawand three citations to cases with inaccurate descriptions ofthe propositions oflawfor which they stood. The errant citations were pointed out to Mr. Johnson on August 25, 2025, at which point the parties agreed to pass that day's setting. This Court was not the assigned Judge at that time and has no direct knowledge of anything other than what is reflected in the minutes. Mr. Johnson sought leave to file acorrectedpleading andthenfiled acorrectedMotion toDismiss. The Court never had a chance to grant leave to file, but it was filed anyway. The Court finds that the mere filing of the corrected Motion does not moot the issue from the Court's perspective. b. The Court does not render a finding that, based upon the affidavit filedby Mr. Johnson and executed byhis paralegal, that there have been similar cases filed.