DETROIT, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Michigan's attorney disciplinary panel has dropped misconduct complaints against attorney Geoffrey Fieger for an obscenity-filled tirade on talk radio.
The Attorney Discipline Board voted 5-3 to drop the professional misconduct charge levied after a 1999 talk radio show interview in which Fieger made obscene remarks about state appeals court judges who had reversed a $15 million jury award for one of his clients.
Among other things, the Detroit News reported, the Southfield attorney and onetime gubernatorial candidate had likened one judge to Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress.
"I declare war on you," he also said to the judges in that interview.
Fieger gained notoriety in his work for assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian and has been the subject of numerous complaints.
The majority decision called on the board not to let Fieger's "revolting language stir our passions and warp our interpretation of the rules."
