Tobacco On Trial

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The PDF of Order #26 is HERE
EXCERPT:
WHEREFORE, it is this 18th day of August, 2011, hereby
ORDERED, that, with the concurrence of Judge John Guthmann, of the Second Judicial District Court, County of Ramsey, State of Minnesota, this Court will exercise jurisdiction and supervision of the Minnesota Depository as of September 15, 2011; and it […]

The PDF is HERE
EXCERPT:
As one of its transparency remedies, the Court ordered Defendants to maintain the Minnesota Depository until 2021. Defendants did not challenge the Court’s Minnesota Depository remedy in their post-judgment motion for clarification or for relief from the judgment; did not object to keeping the Minnesota Depository and their document websites open the […]

EXCERPTS:
As set forth below, while the Minnesota Depository costs approximately $1,000,000 annually to maintain, it is rarely used. Moreover, in light of technological advancements, the Depository no longer serves the original purposes for which it was created and is now a mere redundancy. Accordingly, because there is no credible reason for continuing to maintain the […]

On September 1, Defendants filed their motion requesting a stay of Judge Kessler’s Final Judgement and Remedial Order until an appeal can make its way through the courts.
The Defendants request that the “status quo” be maintained for the time being due to the “irreparable injury” that would result from implementation of many of Judge Kessler’s […]

As previously scheduled, June 9 saw a flurry of filings in the Schwab case–31, to be exact, mostly the usual motions to exclude various witnesses’ testimonies.
But even Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein (E.D.N.Y.) must have been just a little taken aback to see the Hausfeld team asking him to exclude ALL of the […]

UPDATED TO INCLUDE LINK TO JUDGE KESSLER’S ORDER #880.
The DOJ has directed Judge Kessler’s attention to yesterday’s Australian court ruling on BAT Australia’s (BATAS) “document retention policy.” The ruling strongly meshes with DOJ’s characterization of it as a document destruction policy meant to limit BATAS’s liability should incriminating documents come to light. The […]