On 8/30/23 10:42 AM, mINE109 wrote:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.93.0_2.pdf
After conceding he made false statements about Georgia election workers.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190173929/rudy-giuliani-georgia-election-workers
Dunno the strategy involved but he has a lot on his plate these days.
Too much trouble to defend?
The judge has commented:
In this case, however, Giuliani has given only lip service to compliance
with his discovery obligations and this Court’s orders by failing to
take reasonable steps to preserve or produce his ESI [electronically
stored information]. Instead, Giuliani has submitted declarations with concessions turned slippery on scrutiny and excuses designed to shroud
the insufficiency of his discovery compliance. The bottom line is that
Giuliani has refused to comply with his discovery obligations and
thwarted plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea’ ArShaye Moss’s procedural rights to obtain any meaningful discovery in this case.
Rather than simply play by the rules designed to promote a discovery
process necessary to reach a fair decision on the merits of plaintiffs’ claims, Giuliani has bemoaned plaintiffs’ efforts to secure his
compliance as “punishment by process.” Donning a cloak of victimization
may play well on a public stage to certain audiences, but in a court of
law this performance has served only to subvert the normal process of
discovery in a straight-forward defamation case, with the concomitant
necessity of repeated court intervention...
Giuliani’s preference may be due to the fact, about which he has made no secret, that he faces liability, both civil and criminal, in other investigations and civil lawsuits... Perhaps, he has made the
calculation that his overall litigation risks are minimized by not
complying with his discovery obligations in this case. Whatever the
reason, obligations are case specific and withholding required discovery
in this case has consequences.
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