Word: lamberth
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When Klayman is in the mood for interrogation, it helps that one of his biggest cases is being heard in the court of U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth. A Ronald Reagan appointee, Lamberth has given Klayman considerable latitude to subpoena witnesses and seek materials in Klayman's "Filegate" suit, a $90 million invasion-of-privacy action against Hillary Clinton and others on behalf of former Reagan and Bush officials whose FBI files were improperly held by Clinton staff members. Lamberth has even ordered Stephanopoulos to pay part of Klayman's legal costs, because the former Clinton aide failed to search...
...times Lamberth has been flinching at Klayman's scour-every-corner approach. Three weeks ago, he quashed a Klayman subpoena to New Yorker writer Mayer. Klayman was hoping to depose Mayer and obtain all her notes and source materials from the past six years, a give-me-every-word-you-ever-heard demand that sent alarms among journalists. Lamberth forbade the subpoena, saying the old material had no bearing on the heart of Klayman's lawsuit. "That's when Filegate began," is how Klayman explains it. "We wanted to see if she knew anything about Filegate...
...McCurry was flip in the Huang affair and Gore implacable, the D.N.C. was intricately unhelpful. Last week a federal district judge in Washington, Royce Lamberth, approved a subpoena calling for Huang to appear in court in connection with a lawsuit filed by a conservative group, Judicial Watch, Inc., which suspects that the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown used foreign trade missions to collect money for the Democrats. Attorneys for the group want to question Huang about his old job as a trade official in the Commerce Department, which he left in December. Huang's attorney, who called the suit...
...week top figures of the D.N.C. insisted they had no idea where Huang was. "We contact him through his attorney," said committee spokeswoman Amy Weiss-Tobe. An exasperated Judge Lamberth finally issued a court order demanding that Huang show up at the office this week to receive the subpoena. Huang promised to comply. Advice to the Clinton campaign: a very big speed bump ahead, though the impact may not be felt until the second term...
Citing jurors' reports that a majority favored acquittal on all counts, defense attorney Richard Hibey said he would urge independent counsel Lawrence Walsh to drop the case. Walsh is reportedly determined to proceed. Judge Lamberth ordered a retrial to begin...