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If there is one consistent through-line for the #squidigation performances thus far, it's the consistent "shoot themselves in the foot through their client's groin and act like it's good tactics because someone will have to stitch them back together.
1/ https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1333989098558795782
1/ https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1333989098558795782
In case you missed @questauthority's brilliant thread, here we have lawyers who *won* a temporary restraining order, which would last long enough to get them to an evidentiary hearing. The thing they have *consistently* failed to get to.
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In fact, the thing that #squidigation defenders (see e.g Robert Barnes) have started to lean on as proof that there is some kind of proof and they just haven't gotten to show it yet.
They *had* an evidentiary hearing scheduled, and a TRO to keep the status quo until then.
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They *had* an evidentiary hearing scheduled, and a TRO to keep the status quo until then.
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So, what do Wood and Powell do?
They appeal the TRO they themselves requested *and* claim that their appeal strips the district court judge of the power to do *anything* until the appeal is resolved.
I have no words to describe how bad that is.
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They appeal the TRO they themselves requested *and* claim that their appeal strips the district court judge of the power to do *anything* until the appeal is resolved.
I have no words to describe how bad that is.
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It'd be like a football team challenging their own game-tying touchdown if the NFL also had a rule that the clock kept running during a challenge and would hit 0:00
The judge gave them a 10-day TRO, that would have gotten to the evidentiary hearing.
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The judge gave them a 10-day TRO, that would have gotten to the evidentiary hearing.
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If the court has no more power to do anything until the appeal is resolved? That hearing isn't going to happen as scheduled. And as soon as the TRO runs out, any of these records Lin so *desperately* wants to get his suction cups on can be destroyed.
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Even if the *only* thing that happens is that the 11th circuit says "nah, bro, we're not touching this", the district court will need to reschedule that hearing and if that runs past 10 days? That's the ballgame, if you'll forgive mixed metaphors.
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That could wind up a whole lot of wasted effort, of course. The court could issue another TRO, or somehow squeeze the hearing in before the 10 days run out.
But dear god are those not odds that it makes sense to play *when you already got what you asked for*.
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But dear god are those not odds that it makes sense to play *when you already got what you asked for*.
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