Attorney Suspended For Refusing Mental Health Evaluation, by Mike Frisch, Legal Profession Prof

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_profession/2015/04/attorney-suspended-for-refusing-mental-health-evaluation.html

Janice L. Jennings, P.O. Box 103, West Palm Beach, suspended for 91 days, effective immediately, and indefinitely thereafter, until she complies with the terms and conditions set forth in a Feb. 19 court order and demonstrates rehabilitation. (Admitted to practice: 1985) Jennings refused The Florida Bar’s request that she schedule a mental health evaluation with Florida Lawyers Assistance. The request came after the Bar learned of a written filing and statements in which Jennings advised the court, among other things, that her former employer had caused the implantation of a microchip in her left ear that was designed to harm and disrupt her ability to function. (Case No. SC14-1218)

The Tampa Bay Times reported on the situation in June 2014

A June 16 Times article showed that she had been  telling federal judges for more than a decade that she was the victim of mind control and torture, with no apparent effect on her license to practice law….