THE ROBING ROOM

Judge Walter allowed a govt atty to violate all the rules, let her seek continuances when she wanted to, let her violate the requirements of a Rule 37 motion to compel over and over again, and get this: HE LET HER HAVE 159 DAYS WORTH OF CONTINUANCES TO FILE HER MSJ. She stated under oath she was being paid $270.00/hr OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO DEFEND THE CASE IN THIS FASHION. The motion to dismiss was denied. Based on the identical facts in the complaint and law on which the motion to dismiss was denied, he granted summary judgment (all the facts necessary to defeat S.J. were actually proven by Defense Counsel in her MSJ Stmt of Facts)!! In four years of litigation, he never held a hearing. So, a judge my client and I have never met, never seen, and never heard threw his case out. In another case, for a defendant who ran a pimping operation, I sued him under RICO. J. Walter ordered a RICO stmt. Then when I was late with the RICO stmt, because I miscalendared he threw out the entire RICO claim with prejudice. --And I have not even served the defendants. The four year old case also involved a RICO claim, but he did not order a RICO stmt. His local local rules completely vitiate the purpose of efiling which is to level the playing field for attorneys representing plaintiffs. His technical requirements violate the General Order on efiling which is a denial of due process to plaintiffs and their attorneys running their cases on a shoe string. Funny thing is that I never met the judge because he never allowed a hearing.