[Am-info] Do you think Kottar-Kelley will delay ruling until a Democrat is president?

Eric M. Bennett ericb@pobox.com
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:14:24 -0400


<ethical@1of1.net> wrote:

>In a message dated 2002 October 20 (Sunday), timestamp 10:47 PM,
>    on the topic Re: [Am-info] Do you think Kottar-Kelley will delay
>ruling until a Democrat is president?,
>    Paul Rickard <pr@ms-bc.com> wrote:
>
>"|I'm sure somewhere there's a limit on the length
>"|of time a  judge can take to hand down a decision. Right?
>
>No.

Officially no, but as I recall Judge Jackson once took years to rule 
on a case, so the parties went to the appeals court, which ordered 
him to issue a ruling.

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Cornell University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

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