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clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
“At that point, we noticed some problems.” This is like when your mom says “I just want to talk.”
As noted, these consolidated appeals arise out of lawsuits that Irion filed on behalf of Whiting over a 2022 fireworks show and its aftermath. Egli represents Irion and Whiting in one of the appeals. Irion represents Whiting in the other two. After we docketed the appeals and conducted our initial review of the briefs, we consolidated the cases. At that point, we noticed some problems. Whiting's brief misrepresented the nature of the district court's sanctions order in No. 25-5424. Also, many of the cases cited in Whiting's briefs either did not exist, did not include the quoted language he claimed they did, or did not discuss or support the proposition for which Whiting cited them. All told, we found over two dozen fake citations and misrepresentations of fact in Whiting's briefs, which we list in an appendix to this opinion.
March 17, 2026 at 6:49 PM
zillionross.bsky.social
Then there's Nixter. Perching on top of the Irion King Mine-Humboldt smelter
March 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
Any one of these aggravating factors would be enough to make me go 😵‍💫 in real life. FOUR OF THEM?????
Four additional aggravating factors in this case warrant particularly harsh sanctions. First, Irion and Egli are appealing sanctions orders, and they have engaged in further misconduct. Although the district court's sanctions orders were for filing frivolous lawsuits instead of for lacking candor to the tribunal, we find it deeply concerning that a lawyer would engage in further misconduct on appeal from a finding that they engaged in misconduct. See Nevin v. Bd. of Pro. Resp. of Sup. Ct. of Tenn., 271 S.W.3d 648, 658 (Tenn. 2008) ("repeated misconduct" warrants harsher discipline); ABA Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions § 8.2 (2d ed. 2019) (similar). Second, Irion and Egli have been disciplined for lack of candor to the tribunal before. In 17, the Supreme Court of Tennessee publicly censured Egli for lack of candor to the tribunal. See In re Egli, No. M2017-00608-SC-BAR-BP (Tenn. Mar. 30, 2017) (per curiam). And in August 2025 (while Irion and Egli were briefing these appeals), Irion was suspended from the Eastern District of Tennessee for five years because he lied to the district court in No. 25-5424. In re Irion, 2025 WL 2319537, at *13, *37. Despite this, both Irion and Egli submitted several briefs to this court with fake citations and misrepresentations of the record. Third, Irion and Egli defied this court's order to show cause and refused to provide the information we requested. For over 150 years, the Supreme Court has said that litigants must comply with court orders, whether they are erroneous or not. See, e.g., Howat v. Kansas, 258 U.S. 181, 189-90 (1922); In re Chiles, 89 U.S. (22 Wall.) 157, 169 (1874). If a lawyer or litigant fails to comply with a court order, he is subject to contempt, even if the order is ultimately reversed or vacated. Maness v. Meyers, 419 U.S. 449, 458-60 (1975); Worden v. Searls, 121 U.S. 14, 26-27 (1887). By refusing to comply with the order, Irion and Egli have only compounded the violations for which we sanction them in this case. Fourth, the responses to the show cause order that Irion and Egli did file show a stunning lack of respect for this court, the members of the panel and their staffs, and the rule of law. Most litigants caught submitting fake cases have apologized and sought forgiveness, rightly recognizing the seriousness of their misconduct. See, e.g., Al-Hamim v. Star Hearthstone, LLC, 564 P.3d 1117, 1125 (Colo. Ct. App. 2024); Elizondo v. City of Laredo, No. 5:25-CV-50, 2025 WL 2071072, at *3 (S.D. Tex. July 23, 2025). By contrast, Irion and Egli scolded this court and accused it of engaging in a vast conspiracy to harass them. More severe sanctions are clearly warranted to deter misconduct like this.
March 17, 2026 at 7:23 PM
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
Sorry, apparently this footnote continued onto the next page because there was so much absurdity
After appellees filed their response to the show cause order (which we explicitly invited), Irion and Egli moved to strike that response. We then issued an order denying the motion to strike, again with the circuit clerk's signature on the order. Irion and Egli filed an objection and appeal of that order, asserting that they were "entitled to have the motion to strike reviewed by the Sixth Circuit Judges." Objection and Appeal in No. 25-5424 at 1, 6. The k instructed Irion and Egli to refile that motion because it did not comply with our local rules. Irion and Egli then moved to have the panel instruct the clerk to accept the objection and appeal, asserting that the clerk was "unconstitutional[ly] practicing [] law rather than filing documents as required by law." Motion to Unlock in No. 25-5424 at 1. The judges reviewed the motion and issued an order denying that motion. Again, our order bore the circuit clerk's signature. In response, Irion and Egli petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus and/or prohibition, suggesting that the judges on the panel are not reviewing their motions or their cases and that the clerk of court is deciding cases in parallel to the judges on the court. That petition was denied. See In re Irion, No. 25-785 (U.S. Mar. 9, 2026). We are aware of Irion's and Egli's motions, and we have personally reviewed each of them. We also personally reviewed and drafted the order to show cause. The mere fact that the clerk signed them does not change that, nor does it suggest any impropriety on our part or hers.
March 17, 2026 at 7:11 PM
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
Everyone stfu the Sixth Circuit issued *gigantic* AI sanctions

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We wholeheartedly agree. Irion and Egli breached the trust that we must have in the lawyers appearing before us. They have brought the profession into disrepute. Irion's and Egli's failure to comply with the basic rules of our profession has forced us and the City to unnecessarily expend time and resources on a case that should have been litigated and resolved straightforwardly but was not. More importantly, by breaching our trust, we can no longer rely on the representations in Irion's and Egli's briefs, harming both their clients (whose cases are now viewed with skepticism and this court who must now independently verify everything Irion and Egli write. Finally, Irion and Egli have sullied the reputation of our bar, which now must litigate under the cloud of their conduct. We therefore issue these sanctions to Irion and Egli, the rationales for which we will explain below: 1. Irion and Egli must jointly and severally reimburse appellees in full for their reasonable attorneys' fees on appeal in all three appeals. 2. Irion and Egli must jointly and severally pay double costs to appellees for costs incurred under 28 U.S.C. § 1920 on appeal in all three appeals. 3. Appellees must file an accounting of their costs and attorneys' fees on appeal, with supporting documentation, no later than seven days from the date of this order. Irion and Egli shall file any responses or objections to appellees' requests for costs and attorneys' fees on appeal no later than seven days thereafter. There will be no replies. 4. Irion and Egli must each separately and individually pay $15,000 to the registry of this court as punitive sanctions for the proceedings in this court in all three appeals. 5. The clerk will forward a copy of this order to the chief judge to consider disciplinary proceedings under Sixth Circuit Local Rule 46. 6. If Irion and Egli are financially unable to comply with some or all of the requirements of this order, they must file an affidavit under seal describing their financial situation along with their objections to appellees' fee requests.
March 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
“*in this very case*” Is it good when the Court is whipping out the italics at you
Finally, our orders are not invalid simply because the clerk signed them. We have already told Irion and Egli that our orders are not void when the clerk signs them in this very case. Whiting v. City of Athens, No. 24-5886, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 13507, at *1 (6th Cir. June 2, 2025). And the Supreme Court has twice denied petitions for mandamus from Irion and Egli demanding that the clerk stop signing our orders. See In re Murphy, 146 S. Ct. 286 (2025); In re Irion, No. 25-785 (U.S. Mar. 9, 2026). Neither Irion nor Egli points us to any authority saying that the clerk may not sign our orders.4 4Trion and Egli have repeatedly questioned our practice of letting the clerk sign our orders, even suggesting that she is deciding cases without us knowing about it. See Pet. for Writ of Mandamus and/or Prohibition, In re Irion, No. 25-785, at *1 (U.S. Jan. 5, 2026). Irion's and Egli's concerns are baseless, as a recitation of relevant facts reveals. The dispute underlying the consolidated appeals first came before this panel in 2024, when we decided the merits of Whiting's claims in No. 24-5918. See generally Whiting v. City of Athens, No. 23-6082, 2024 WL 3537651 (6th Cir. July 25, 2024). After we decided that case, the district court sanctioned Whiting, and Whiting appealed that order. R. 57, Order, PageD 667 (No. 24-5918); R. 58, Notice of Appeal, PageID 680 (No. 24-5918). That triggered our must panel procedure. "In appeals after this court returns a case to the lower court or agency for further proceedings, or after the Supreme Court of the United States remands a case to this court, the original panel will determine whether to hear the appeal or whether it should be assigned to a panel at random." 6th Cir. I.O.P. 34(b)(1). We accepted the must panel. Appellees' briefing also said that Nos. 24-5919 and 25-5424 were pending before us, Appellees' Br. in No. 24-5918 at 13-14, so we reviewed the briefs in those cases, saw they were related to No. 24-5918, and consolidated them…
March 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
questauthority.bsky.social
Oh my god - I'm familiar with this dude.

Van Irion was a birther attorney - he lost an administrative law hearing in Georgia that tried to get Obama kicked off the ballot back in 2012.
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · Mar 17
Everyone stfu the Sixth Circuit issued *gigantic* AI sanctions

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We wholeheartedly agree. Irion and Egli breached the trust that we must have in the lawyers appearing before us. They have brought the profession into disrepute. Irion's and Egli's failure to comply with the basic rules of our profession has forced us and the City to unnecessarily expend time and resources on a case that should have been litigated and resolved straightforwardly but was not. More importantly, by breaching our trust, we can no longer rely on the representations in Irion's and Egli's briefs, harming both their clients (whose cases are now viewed with skepticism and this court who must now independently verify everything Irion and Egli write. Finally, Irion and Egli have sullied the reputation of our bar, which now must litigate under the cloud of their conduct. We therefore issue these sanctions to Irion and Egli, the rationales for which we will explain below: 1. Irion and Egli must jointly and severally reimburse appellees in full for their reasonable attorneys' fees on appeal in all three appeals. 2. Irion and Egli must jointly and severally pay double costs to appellees for costs incurred under 28 U.S.C. § 1920 on appeal in all three appeals. 3. Appellees must file an accounting of their costs and attorneys' fees on appeal, with supporting documentation, no later than seven days from the date of this order. Irion and Egli shall file any responses or objections to appellees' requests for costs and attorneys' fees on appeal no later than seven days thereafter. There will be no replies. 4. Irion and Egli must each separately and individually pay $15,000 to the registry of this court as punitive sanctions for the proceedings in this court in all three appeals. 5. The clerk will forward a copy of this order to the chief judge to consider disciplinary proceedings under Sixth Circuit Local Rule 46. 6. If Irion and Egli are financially unable to comply with some or all of the requirements of this order, they must file an affidavit under seal describing their financial situation along with their objections to appellees' fee requests.
March 18, 2026 at 1:13 AM
questauthority.bsky.social
Anyway, Van Irion has long worn clown shoes, this sanction is not a sign of new behavior.
March 18, 2026 at 1:22 AM
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
Succinct and brutal.
The courts are, should be, and must be, open to all litigants who have suffered harms at the hands of the government. And nothing in this opinion should be construed as a holding that Irion and Egli were appropriately sanctioned simply because they lost. That is far from the truth. Irion and Egli have engaged in a coordinated effort to harass the City of Athens, Tennessee, and its employees through non-stop litigation over the past five years. They asserted claims that they knew were meritless to drain the resources of the City. They then compounded the problems by Case: 24-5918 Document: 50-2 Filed: 03/13/2026 Page: 17 (17 of 24) ( No. 24-5918/5919/25-5424 Whiting v. City of Athens, Tenn. Page 17 submitting briefs to this court with fake citations and factual misrepresentations and defying the order to show cause why they should not be sanctioned. To protect the integrity of our proceedings, we take the measures outlined in section II.C. The panel will retain jurisdiction to the extent required to enforce the terms of this opinion.
March 17, 2026 at 7:24 PM
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
Guy who already has one “in the matter of [my lawyering]” case going and inexplicably decides to shoot for a second?????
Our suggestion that the briefs may have been ghostwritten does not support Irion's and Egli's challenge to the show cause order, either. The Eastern District of Tennessee's decision finding that Irion improperly ghostwrote pleadings is on Bloomberg, LexisNexis, and Westlaw. See In re Irion, No. 1:24-DM-7, 2025 BL 286140, 2025 LX 350467, 2025 WL 2319537, at *31- Ghostwriting is when one person writes the document while another person takes credit for it without acknowledging the true author's identity. See The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 741 (4th ed. 2000). Legal authorities generally discuss ghostwriting for a pro se litigant, see, e.g., Duran v. Carris, 238 F.3d 1268, 1272 (10th Cir. 2001), but we see no reason why rules regulating ghostwriting should apply in only the pro se context. The primary concern with ghostwriting is that the true author would escape liability for his conduct, see In re Mungo, 305 B.R. 762, 768 (Bankr. D.S.C. 2003); Ellis v. Maine, 448 F.2d 1325, 1328 (1st Cir. 1971), and that concern is just as acute when a lawyer ultimately signs the ghostwritten pleading. Case: 24-5918 Document: 50-2 Filed: 03/13/2026 Page: 11 (11 of No. 24-5918/5919/25-5424 Whiting v. City of Athens, Tenn. Page 11 32 (E.D. Tenn. Aug. 4, 2025). Irion has appealed that order to our court, which is docketed in this court under docket number 25-5874. No one, therefore, should be surprised that we would find out about the ghostwriting.
March 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
pallycat.bsky.social
It's ART!!

[ #hrothgar #hrothgal #gpose #bpose #meme ]
Allamanda replicating a couple keyframes of the "It's ART!" meme from Irion Giant
July 13, 2026 at 12:07 AM
questauthority.bsky.social
Yeah, that tracks. Irion has never been more than a tiny step removed from fringy flags.
March 18, 2026 at 1:25 AM
gabrielmalor.bsky.social
6th Cir. sanctions two attorneys over multiple briefs with over two dozen (at least) fake citations and misrepresentations of fact.

The sanctions are considerable.

www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
We therefore issue these sanctions to Irion and Egli, the rationales for which we will explain below: 1. Irion and Egli must jointly and severally reimburse appellees in full for their reasonable attorneys’ fees on appeal in all three appeals. 2. Irion and Egli must jointly and severally pay double costs to appellees for costs incurred under 28 U.S.C. § 1920 on appeal in all three appeals. 3. Appellees must file an accounting of their costs and attorneys’ fees on appeal, with supporting documentation, no later than seven days from the date of this No. 24-5918/5919/25-5424 Whiting v. City of Athens, Tenn. Page 14 order. Irion and Egli shall file any responses or objections to appellees’ requests for costs and attorneys’ fees on appeal no later than seven days thereafter. There will be no replies. 4. Irion and Egli must each separately and individually pay $15,000 to the registry of this court as punitive sanctions for the proceedings in this court in all three appeals. 5. The clerk will forward a copy of this order to the chief judge to consider disciplinary proceedings under Sixth Circuit Local Rule 46. 6. If Irion and Egli are financially unable to comply with some or all of the requirements of this order, they must file an affidavit under seal describing their financial situation along with their objections to appellees’ fee requests.
March 13, 2026 at 8:06 PM
kurobaw27.bsky.social
en orden, Irion, Maël, Ailun y Nesiria 🌌🌌
#ProyectoDritërrët
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
questauthority.bsky.social
Van Irion lost that case despite the Democratic Party/Obama Campaign refusing to participate in the hearing on (for all intents and purposes) the grounds that the proceedings were a farce, which royally pissed off the ALJ.
March 18, 2026 at 1:16 AM
dparichy.bsky.social
New preprint up with collaborators Jianguo Lu, @mpodobnik.bsky.social, Uwe Irion, Braedan McCluskey, John Postlethwait and others. New Danio genomes, evolution and pigment pattern variation. Long time in the making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
Anyway time to move on to Counselor Bonar! My takeaway from how it starts is that she has never appeared in court before, and definitely not in an appellate court. For one, you have to make an appearance. For two, “You guys” is not the *ideal* way to address a panel of judges.
Roxanne Bonar: Hon. Joan Irion: Roxanne Bonar: Hon. Joan Irion: Roxanne Bonar: Hon. Joan Irion: Roxanne Bonar: Hon. Joan Irion: Good morning, Your Honors. I appreciate you guys listening, and I just heard the arguments, and I'm here for not only would | like to answer the OSC, I apologize to the court that the fabricated cases came off that way. I was actually there at the RFO hearing. I just wanted to also be as truthful as possible. Leanne is my cousin, and when those fabricated cases came up, it was actually Can you hold on one moment? Sure, sure. Madam Clerk? Oh, sorry. My name is Roxanne Chung Bonar. I represent Leanne Munoz. Thank you. Sorry. Sorry about that. My apologies as well. Right.
March 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
dbeecher.bsky.social
Just going to leave this here.
Van Irion has been privileged to appear as a legal expert on FoxNews several times as a guest on the shows On the Record w/Greta Van Susteren and Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano
March 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM
zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Wonderful feature on Dr. Uwe Irion (In Duetsch)
maxplanckcampus.bsky.social Max Planck Campus Tübingen @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social · Jan 8
#Zebrafish: Tiny windows into the wonders of life
These transparent fish offer a unique insight into cell development. Learn from this SWR interview (in 🇩🇪) how researchers from the Max Planck Campus in Tübingen use zebrafish to observe brain activity & cancer growth in real-time.
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January 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
“Very briefly” = we are sick of you people already, or possibly just that it’s almost lunchtime
Hon. Joan Irion: All right. Mr. Beavans, do you want to close briefly? David Beavans: Yes, briefly, Your Honor. Thank you. Hon. Joan Irion: Very briefly.
March 19, 2026 at 10:12 PM
justinhendrix.bsky.social
The framing around limiting the US military’s use of generative AI for domestic surveillance should unsettle the rest of the world, writes Kristina Irion. Countries seem woefully unprepared to respond to AI-enabled mass surveillance by another state.
AI Firms Can Limit Military Surveillance of Americans. What About of Everyone Else?
The framing around limiting the US military’s use of generative AI for domestic surveillance should unsettle the rest of the world, writes Kristina Irion.
www.techpolicy.press
March 12, 2026 at 1:39 AM
questauthority.bsky.social
The hearing itself was a massive circus - three rings, no waiting - of the ALJ's making. Van Irion was actually the better of the birther attorneys present.

Granted, that is damning with faint praise; that bar is somewhere south of the planet's mantle.
March 18, 2026 at 1:22 AM
davidbflower.bsky.social
More 2024 favourites: Andromeda Galaxy, Northern lights, Orion, Comet 12P Pons-Brooks. #astrophotography
The Andromeda galaxy at centre. Fuzzy galaxy M110 to its left. Numerous star dots. Pink, purple, and green northern lights. Orion nebula left of centre. Flame nebula at upper left. Three blue star of belt Irion below top edge. Numerous other star dots. Green comet head below centre with tail going up. Star dots.
December 31, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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@gohanclub.bsky.social

今日の夕ご飯は夫がいるので、先日届いた腸詰屋さんの訳ありハムソーセージセットからヴィナーヴルスチェンとピッツアケーゼでした。

お酒はDOPFF&IRION ゲヴェルツトラミネールです。
March 6, 2024 at 12:12 PM
tabletopmaster.bsky.social
This deserve to be shared on this platform as well.
Irion, the capitol of Locria.
#TTRPG #Maps #dnd
November 23, 2024 at 11:44 AM