Shaddai Harris v. Nadia Lyotard and Mitchell Sadler

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–4– Appellant initially filed a brief raising sixteen appellate issues.1 The brief contained at least four hallucinated citations and at least twenty citations which do not stand for the proposition or holding for which they are presented. After appellees filed their brief, appellant filed a reply brief with at least two hallucinated citations and at least ten citations which do not stand for the proposition or holding for which they are presented. Appellees,meanwhile,filedabriefchallengingappellant’sinitialbrief,noting at least one hallucination and multiple instances of appellant misrepresenting the holdings of cited cases. Appellees’ brief itself was lacking; the brief contained exactly one citation to the record, and that citation was to the entirety of the trial court record (“see generally Clerk’s Record and Reporter’s Record”). Notably, appellees’ brief made no effort to refute appellant’s arguments about the portion of the judgment awarding appellee Lyotard damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress.