He asked Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker to reopen discovery — the fact-finding phase that happens before a trial — so they could introduce new evidence.

Instead, Walker grilled and lectured him for several minutes, cutting himself short after saying the lawyer’s behavior had raised some serious ethical issues.

“It strains credulity when you say these are newly discovered facts when they are all part of the public record,” Walker said. “These are the very reports and experts we knew about, but we just learned in the last two days the Earth is not round and there’s gambling in Casablanca and these professors had their reports before they submitted requests for approval.”