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While Brock “doesn’t admit any factual allegations,” his attorney Tracy Green said, he elected to surrender his license rather than invest time and money into a hearing.

Robinson added: "To all the politicians who have jumped on this passing bandwagon of factual inaccuracy and presented it in such a malevolent way - for them to do so is not only misguided but dangerous."

Federal pleading rules require attorneys to certify that the legal contentions they assert are warranted by existing law or a reasonable argument for modifying the law, and that the factual contentions have evidentiary support.

District Court in Los Angeles wrote in his Wednesday ruling that Montañez’s accusations of fraud and defamation were insufficient or lacked “factual support.”

"Our role was not to decide whether Nicola Packer's actions were right or wrong; but to make a factual judgement about whether she knew she was beyond the legal limit when she accessed abortion medication."