Rosa
Rosa v. Scottsdale Memorial Health Systems, Inc.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
ORDER
On October 16, 1997, this court issued a show cause order in response to the failure to comply with several circuit rules regarding the excerpts of record by one party’s attorney in this case. After having received and reviewed the letter brief ordered by this court to be filed by the attorney in noncompliance, we issued an order declining to impose monetary sanctions and discharging the show cause order, but promising to issue a subsequent order explaining the reasons for our decision in this matter. This published order serves that purpose.
BACKGROUND
On February 3, 1997, offending counsel attempted to file five sets of excerpts of record with the clerk of this court. Because the excerpts were not separately bound with tan covers, however, the excerpts were returned to counsel with instructions for rebinding. On March 6, 1997, offending counsel filed five sets of properly bound excerpts of record. Had binding been the only problem with offending counsel’s excerpts of record, this matter would have been over. Unfortunately, it was only the beginning.
After the panel received the excerpts of record in this case, we quickly discovered how utterly useless they were to the…