Plaintiffs Reply to Defense Opposition on the 5th Under DC Civil Code Rule 30(d)(2), the plaintiff is entitled to one day of seven hours of deposition testimony for each defendant, absent a further order of court. Multiply that by three…
Look Who’s Talking
Defense Fires Back on Interpreting the 5th The level of tension in Covington’s conference room on November 10, for Dylan Ward’s deposition, must have been off the charts. Plaintiff’s counsel Ben Razi hammered away at Ward with question after question, while…
Sounds Of Silence
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…
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…