ORDER NEIL V. WAKE, District Judge. Pending before the Court are Defendant Ionutescu's Motion to Exclude Evidence (doc. # 419), Motion for Judgment of Acquittal pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 29(c)(1) (doc. # 486), and Motion to Grant a New Trial pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 33 (doc. # 487) as to Counts 1, 5, and 7, as charged in the Superseding Indictment (doc. # 259). I. Fed.R.Crim.P. 29 Standard In ruling on a motion challenging the sufficiency of the government's evidence under Fed.R.Crim.P....
ORDER DAVID C. BURY, District Judge. A civil plenary bench trial on the three factual issues remanded by the Ninth Circuit was conducted before this Court from August 10, 2009 through August 13, 2009 with Thomas G. Cotter, Esq., appearing for Plaintiffs, and Philip D. MacWilliams, Esq., appearing for Defendant. 1 After completion of the trial, both parties submitted proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, as well as supporting legal memoranda. Closing argument was heard by the...