Imagine that! Judge Walker’s law clerk read Rossmiller’s blog to “keep up with the McIntosh case”!
Since there were blog-reading clerks “working” in the northern district Mississippi federal court when USA v Scruggs, Scruggs and Backstrom was before Judge Biggers, I certainly wasn’t surprised to learn the same was happening here . The difference between the two courts is that Chief Judge Mills “blew the whistle” but no judge in the southern district had toot to say about it.
I happened upon that revealing bit of information the old-fashioned way – reading case documents from the docket of the Rigsby qui tam case – because Over the wire or under the wig – ex parte is ex parte (Part 1, 2 and 3) and Katrina’s surge fueled the quest for money at the expense of ethics: Earwigging and Blawgs.
Other than that single revelation, the post-discovery motions filed by State Farm have been “much ado about nothing” of significance to the merits of the Righby’s allegation of State Farm’s fraudulent claims handling. Judge Walker issued an Order denying State Farm’s Motion to Compel Computers:
Ultimately, the Court finds that the motion to compel should be denied because State Farm has failed to give a sufficient justification for going behind the discovery process and for disregarding counsel for Realtors’ sworn representations that all responsive documents from the computers have been produced. Continue reading “Judge Walker's clerk read blog to keep up with McIntosh case – a Rigsby qui tam update!”