Both appellants contend that the prosecution mounted against them was impermissibly motivated by hostility toward their religion and that the district court erred in denying their request for discovery and a hearing on the issue of selective prosecution. In this Circuit, a defendant who advances a...
The availability of a defense of absolute prosecutorial immunity depends on the nature of the acts allegedly performed rather than on the office itself, for, as the district court observed, it is established that prosecutors have absolute immunity for some of their acts but only qualified immunity ...
. For now, most have been left to figure out how to pay for their own criminal defense regarding their alleged scheme to help keep him in office, according to a number of people familiar with the case. All of the defendants face the same charge of racketeering under Georgia law, in add...
for the judge to agree to their definition, because it went away from what the spirit of the patent design, but then it opened up all the prior art where a person at one location (ie. on a computer) to request and download a video (ie. from a BBS) that was in a "remote ...
When two residents of Oregon were murdered by rebels while on safari in Uganda, lawyers started hunting in Chicago for some juicy foreign defendants. One foreign corporation was nailed by waiver (because it submitted a request to admit on damages befo
In addition to the joint state effort in preparing these cases for trial, and of course the discovery, there was a joint effort of all these state court leaders in the long and complex -- really colossal task of negotiating the settlement that we will hear about shortly. In addition to ...
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New York law the collection firm lacked the right to serve a restraining notice on him without first having “reason to believe” that he was the debtor; and (2) New York case law held that a subpoena duces tecum could not “be used as a fishing expedition for the purpose of discovery...
to prepare and file a regular motion for injunctive relief (with or without a request for a default judgment), which will take about one month longer to obtain. The delay could be costly, by giving additional time for the PACA Defendants to dissipate PACA trust assets as well as to find ...
LEWITT THIS CAUSE comes before the Court upon the Parties' request for consent judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b). (DE 22). Defendants Third Friday Management and Michael E. Lewitt have entered a general appearance, have consented to the Court' s jurisdiction over them...