Facts Matter
The School of Police Supervision, at the Institute for Law Enforcement Administration, graduated its 129th class on October 25, 2019. The following is an excerpt from the address to the graduates and their friends, families, and colleagues.
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Weekly Case Roundup
Court Says Secretary of Commerce Contrived Reason for Citizenship Question in 2020 Census
You may access the Court’s 5-4 ruling against including a citizenship question in the 2020 census here: Department of Commerce v. New York (U.S. June 27, 2019).
FTC Defeats Qualcomm in Fight over Monopoly in Smartphone Chips
United States District Judge Lucy Koh ruled on May 22, 2019, after a 10-day bench trial in January, that Qualcomm has and abused “monopoly chip power”. Qualcomm Findings and Conclusions 5-22-19.
AT&T Wins Permission to Marry Time Warner
Judge Richard Leon, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled today that the United States failed to persuade him to block AT&T’s bid to acquire Time Warner under antitrust law. See the 172-page opus here: AT&T Opinion 6-12-18
LIBOR Over-the-Counter Plaintiffs Win Class Certification of Price-Fixing Claims Against Banks
Today, United States District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan issued LIBOR VII, in which the court granted class certification under Rule 23(b)(3) to a class of plaintiffs who bought over-the-counter instruments that paid interest in terms of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and who allege that LIBOR-setting banks conspired to suppress LIBOR
Preparing difficult witnesses for trial: Hardest questions, dry runs, keeping a safe distance, and conclusion
This coming Thursday, I’ll give a talk about Preparing Difficult Witnesses for Trial at the University of Texas law school Civil Litigation Conference in Austin. My series of posts on the subject ends with this one — and it’s the best one of them all, in my view.
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Preparing difficult witnesses for trial: Story of me, full interview, and explaining what matters and why
In this penultimate installment of my series on preparing difficult witnesses (DWs) for trial, we get to some of the real nitty-gritty: Learning the story of me, doing a full interview, and then explaining what matters and why. As will become clear, the sequence matters — a lot.
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Preparing Difficult Witnesses for Trial — Part 3
In Part 3 of our Preparing Difficult Witnesses for Trial series (see Part 1 and Part 2), we study a key aspect of trial-team dynamics and the necessity of getting face-to-face with difficult witnesses (DWs).
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