Ramey’s Pro Hac Vice Problems Metastasize

At least three presiding judges—in cases filed separately in the Northern District of California (N.D. Cal.) by Ramey LLP-repped Cooperative Entertainment, Inc., CyboEnergy, Inc., and Lime Green Lighting, LLC—have either denied Ramey LLP principal William P. Ramey III’s pro hac vice application or issued an order to show cause why such an application should not be denied. Trouble has arisen due (at least in part) to a false representation within those applications that Ramey has “been granted pro hac vice admission by the Court 0 times in the 12 months preceding this application”. Cooperative Entertainment has been ordered, by April 30, to submit a declaration from cocounsel Jennifer Ishimoto of Banie & Ishimoto LLP “indicating whether Ramey authored any of the filings in this action prior to his application to appear pro hac vice”.