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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a lawyer who practices in federal court with some frequency (not SDNY but DC and VA) and want to weight in on the Liman question.

I don't think Liman is an outlier, even if some of his decisions have surprised me. He's really good about explaining his reasoning for everything, especially for the decisions that have been particularly surprising, and in context the decisions make sense.

I think that this case is the outlier, specifically the attorney behavior on both sides. Between Freedman's press-courting showboating and Gottlieb/Hudson's onslaught of motions, including an unusual number that are punitive and/or petty, it's just all very extra even by celebrity case standards. My sense is that Liman is making decisions that keep both sides in check in this respect, and that in particular he is looking to protect his court from becoming a three ring circus at trial. He consistently makes decisions designed to keep the case on schedule and narrow focus. If this thing goes to trial, I think he wants to be able to keep a lot of the really show, melodramatic stuff out of the courtroom if he can. It's making him more severe in some of his rulings than I think most district court judges would be.

Basically I think he's trying to keep both sides on short leashes. When I view his decisions in that light, nothing he's done strikes me as strange.[/quote]

I don’t think you are saying anything different than I did.  “More severe” than most district courts leads to results most would not predict.  I said from the get go that his decisions weren’t “wrong”[/quote]

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