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桑兰案最新进展：2013年审判
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修改状纸的最后日期为2012年10月7日。
取证截止日期为2013年2月28日。
审判的日程表将于2013年3月29日制定。
如果没有意外，应该在2013年中进行审判。
| 07/25/2012 | 112 | ORDER: A pretrial conference having been held by telephone on July 25, 2012, it is hereby ORDERED as follows: 1. Any motion to amend the pleadings shall be served and filed by October 7, 2012. 2. All discovery shall be completed by February 28, 2013. 3. The pretrial order shall be submitted by March 29, 2013 unless any dispositive motion is filed by that date. If such a motion is filed, the pretrial order shall be due thirty days after the motion is decided. ( Discovery due by 2/28/2013. Motions due by 10/7/2012. Pretrial Order due by 3/29/2013.) (Signed by Magistrate Judge James C. Francis on 7/25/2012) Copies Mailed By Chambers. (ja) (Entered: 07/25/2012) |
另外的插曲是：海明在7月12日递交文件，严厉指控Magistrate Judge James C. Francis对他进行残酷打压。海明的控诉可谓字字血、声声泪。但根据我所知的案例，律师指控法官的要做好充分思想准备。加州一个老牌律师Richard Fine指控法官偏见，坐了牢。贺梅案中我们对法官步步追击，但我们不是律师，不靠法院吃饭，律师的条款也管不到我们。
当然了，也有法官跟律师结下梁子，最后律师瞅准机会搞了法官的。加州有个法官就被一律师折腾得够呛。
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- Ex-lawyer jailed 14 months, but not charged with a crime。
Once a dapper Beverly Hills attorney known for his bow tie, Richard Fine has been held in solitary confinement at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail for 14 months, even though he's never been charged with a crime.
Fine, a 70-year- old taxpayer's advocate who once worked for the Department of Justice, is being held for contempt of court.
Superior Court Judge David Yaffe found Fine in contempt after he refused to turn over financial documents and answer questions when ordered to pay an opposing party's attorney's fees, according to court documents.
Fine says his contempt order masks the real reason why he's in jail. He claims he's a political prisoner.
"I ended up here because I did the one thing no other lawyer in California is willing to do. I took on the corruption of the courts," Fine said in a jailhouse interview with CNN.
For the last decade, Fine has filed appeal after appeal against Los Angeles County's Superior Court judges. He says the judges each accept what he calls yearly "bribes" from the county worth $57,000. That's on top of a $178,789 annual salary, paid by the state. The county calls the extra payments "supplemental benefits" -- a way to attract and retain quality judges in a high-cost city.
While the practice of paying supplemental benefits is common in California, most high-cost cities elsewhere don't hand out these kinds of benefits. Judges in Miami, Chicago and Boston receive no extra county dollars.
Judges in Los Angeles County not only have the highest state salaries in the nation, they also get tens of thousands of dollars in county benefits. These payments, Fine says, mean judges are unlikely to rule against the county when it is involved in a lawsuit.
In the last two fiscal years, Los Angeles County won all but one of the nine trials that went before a judge, according to Steven Estabrook, the county's litigation cost manager.
"The reason I'm here is the retaliation of the judges," Fine says. "They figured they're going to throw me in jail and that way they feel that they can stop me."
Fine's decade-long crusade against the judges eventually led to his disbarment last year. Joe Carlucci was the lead prosecutor for the California State Bar. Carlucci says whenever Fine lost a case, he would appeal and argue the judges were corrupt.
"What he ultimately did was to delay proceedings, to level false accusations against judges," Carlucci says. "All of those lawsuits were found to have been frivolous and meritless."
