Pro se plaintiff hit with $20,000 in sanctions 

Even after giving some slack to a litigant representing himself, a Fairfax County judge imposed more than $20,000 in sanctions against a real estate broker who said he was defamed by an ethics complaint. The broker’s self-penned pleadings in the case were “uncivil, unnecessarily discourteous, and riddled with ad hominem attacks,” wrote Fairfax County Circuit ...