Dylan Ward’s Eerily Quiet Deposition On November 10, a meeting room at the Pennsylvania Avenue law offices of Covington and Burling quickly filled up with people for a deposition in an impending civil suit. If a meeting like this had happened five…
Month: November 2010
Friends And Family
Set Another Place at the Table In Harry Jaffe’s treatise, we’re told that Eric Holder gave Robert’s close friend Jason Torchinsky “…the sense that Robert Wone was considered part of the Covington family…” and that the law firm would represent the Wone…
Talk The Talk
Giving Voice to the First Amendment It’s been over a month since the defense filed their motion to Enjoin Legal Counsel From Making Extrajudicial Statements regarding Litigation, AKA the gag order. Two weeks after that filing, the plaintiffs fired back with their…
Cave In
…and the Shortest Filing Ever, So Far. We’re heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, and just in time comes something to be thankful for: the briefest filing we’ve yet seen in what looks like actual progress. Namely, and we quote in…
Oops!
Second Time is the Charm? Just 48 hours after the defense team filed their Response to the Motion to Intervene, they asked for a do-over. To correct the missteps and record, in the accompanying Praecipe they write to, “inform the Court that…
Ink Fight?
Two Birds, One Response In the just filed Defense Response to Motion to Intervene, Victor Zaborsky’s counsel Sean Edwards takes the opportunity to respond to both the media’s motion from November 2, and Covington’s Opposition that was entered on October…
Protective Services
But Who’s Being Protected…And From What? It’s rare in this case for any matter not to provoke a legal fight. We imagine more than one luxury vacation has been financed by challenges and filings and such on both sides of…
Big Sur
Kathy Wone Goes on Record On page 2 of the latest plaintiff’s filing, Covington’s Ben Razi noted that since oral argument had not been scheduled on the defense motion to dismiss, his document may have to suffice. He may have spoke…
Going To The Chappelle
Kathy Wone’s “Misguided Complaint” In Round Three of the statute of limitations (SOL) argument, the defense has filed their Reply Memorandum of Point and Authorities in Support of Motion to Dismiss Counts One, Three and Four (or in the alternative)…
Tolls For Thee
Covington Returns Fire on Motion to Dismiss It took a while but the plaintiffs have finally responded to the Defendants’ Joint Motion to Dismiss Counts One, Three and Four, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment as to Counts One, Three and…