Memorandum Opinion: Denying Petitioner's Emergency Motion for an Independent Medical Evaluation and Treatment and Medical Records ROYCE LAMBERTH , District Judge . Summary The petitioner, Ahmmed Ghulam Rabbani, is a detainee at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay. He has been on hunger strike for four of the last thirteen years. There is some question as to whether or not the petitioner is currently hunger striking, 1 but the Court will, for the most part, assume that his hunger...
MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY , UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE . On December 20, 2017, Defendant Tiffany Henry, through counsel, filed a [26] Motion for Holiday Release ("Def.'s Motion") requesting permission to be released from her halfway house placement from December 24, 2017 until the morning of December 26, 2017, for the purpose of spending time with her family over the Christmas holiday. The Government filed its [27] Opposition to the Motion for Holiday Release ("Gov't Opp'...
MEMORANDUM OPINION: FINDINGS OF FACT AND STATEMENT OF REASONS IN SUPPORT OF PRETRIAL DETENTION Royce C. Lamberth , United States District Judge This matter comes before the Court on Defendant Nicholas Slatten's Motion for Release Pending Trial. ECF No. 693. Mr. Slatten seeks release pending trial pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3142 and requests that the pretrial conditions of release set by the Court on May 13, 2014, be restored. In the alternative, he requests that additional conditions be...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER PAUL L. FRIEDMAN , District Judge . This matter comes before the Court on defendant Edward Tyrone Farley's pro se motion for retroactive application of the Sentencing Guidelines to his conviction under Amendment 782 to the Sentencing Guidelines and 18 U.S.C. 3582 ("Section 3582 Mot.") [Dkt. No. 212] and his pro se motion pursuant to Rule 60(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("Rule 60(d) Mot.") [Dkt. No. 214]. The government opposes both motions....
MEMORANDUM OPINION AMY BERMAN JACKSON , United States District Judge . This case before the Court is an action for a writ of mandamus. Plaintiff asks the Court to order the Attorney General of the United States, the Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility of the United States Department of Justice, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to immediately undertake an investigation of leaks alleged to be...
MEMORANDUM OPINION BERYL A. HOWELL , Chief Judge . The plaintiff, Capitol Hill Group, the landlord of a hospital building located at 700 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, D.C., commenced this suit in Superior Court for the District of Columbia against the tenants of this building, the defendants, DCA Capitol Hill LTAC, LLC and DCA Capitol Hill SNF, LLC, alleging breach of the rental contract due to the defendants' withholding of more than $1,000,000 in rent. Compl., ECF No. 1-1, Adv....
MEMORANDUM OPINION BERYL A. HOWELL , Chief Judge The plaintiff, Yolanda Pauling, an African-American woman currently employed as a Senior Crime Analyst with the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department ("MPD"), initiated this action against defendant District of Columbia alleging employment discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and disability; retaliation; hostile work environment; and failure to accommodate a disability in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...
MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS; DENYING AS MOOT PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION; DENYING AS MOOT PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE DECLARATION RUDOLPH CONTRERAS , United States District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION In May 2017, the President of the United States signed Executive Order 13,799, which established the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (the "Commission"). Approximately one month later, that Commission issued letters...
MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT'S RENEWED MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFF'S RENEWED MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT RUDOLPH CONTRERAS , United States District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Lonnie Parker challenges the response of Defendant U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") to his Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request, which seeks records in ICE's possession related to the agency's previous...
MEMORANDUM OPINION BERYL A. HOWELL , Chief Judge . This is the third opinion issued in this case. See United States v. Apodaca (" Apodaca I "), 251 F.Supp.3d 1, 2 (D.D.C. 2017) (granting the government's motion to enforce two administrative subpoenas); United States v. Apodaca (" Apodaca II "), Crim. No. 14-57 (BAH), 275 F.Supp.3d 123, 159, 2017 WL 3575655, at *23, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131617, at *73 (D.D.C. Aug. 17, 2017) (resolving pretrial motions). 1 Having already resolved...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER PAUL L. FRIEDMAN , District Judge . Pending before the Court are fourteen motions in limine with respect to the admission or exclusion of expert testimony by two former corporate executives who are pro se defendants, and twelve proffered expert witnesses. The United States requests a Daubert hearing with live testimony with respect to three of the proffered experts: Allen L. Price, Bradley S. Field, and Dr. Kazuyuki Yabuki. See October 12, 2017...
Memorandum Opinion: Granting in Part and Denying in Part Defendants' Motions to Dismiss Denying the Fay Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment HONORABLE ROYCE LAMBERTH , UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE . Before the Court are the following motions and all responses and replies thereto: • Defendants Thomas Fay and Fay Law Group's Motion to Dismiss. (ECF # 10). • Defendants Thomas Fay and Fay Law Group's alternative Motion for Summary Judgment. (ECF # 10). • Defendants Steven Perles and...
Memorandum Opinion ROYCE C. LAMBERTH , District Judge . Before the Court is the government's motion for a stay of this Court's order enjoining the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") from charging fees to issue a preparer tax identification number ("PTIN"). Upon consideration of the pleadings, the record, and the relevant law, the Court will DENY the motion for a stay. I. BACKGROUND As explained in detail in this Court's prior memorandum opinion, ECF No. 78, this case concerns 2010-2011...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Amit P. Mehta , United States District Judge I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Harriett Ames is the former Chief of the Personnel Security Branch within the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As head of the Personnel Security Branch, Plaintiff's responsibilities included adjudicating security clearances for employees. Following events that began with agency management stripping her Branch of some of its adjudicatory responsibilities and ended with her reassignment...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER PAUL L. FRIEDMAN , District Judge . This matter is before the Court on the motion [Dkt. 492 in Civil Action No. 04-0280; Dkt. 218 in Civil Action No. 07-1144] of the plaintiff United States to designate Dr. Phillip Bishop as an expert for possible rebuttal testimony at trial. The Court has carefully considered the motion of the United States and the attached exhibits ("Mot."), the opposition filed by Toyobo Company, Ltd., and Toyobo America, Inc. ("Opp."), and...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AMY BERMAN JACKSON , United States District Judge On September 11, 2012, plaintiff Fabrice Gardel was filming a documentary outside of a building located at 1440 New York Avenue. Am. Compl. [Dkt. # 31] 1, 11. He leaned back against a chain linking two bollards together, and a 200-pound bollard fell on his leg and fractured it. Id. 4, 14-19. He has brought this action against defendants SK & A Structural Engineers, PLLC ("SK & A") 1 and Concrete Protection &...
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER PAUL L. FRIEDMAN , District Judge . This matter is before the Court on Defendant's Motion in Limine to Exclude Testimony Regarding Mark Hendrickson [Dkt. No. 191]. The Court has carefully considered the motion, plaintiff's opposition, and defendant's reply, as well as the supporting exhibits and relevant affidavits, declarations, and deposition excerpts in the record before the Court. The Court has also reviewed its summary judgment opinion in this case,...
MEMORANDUM OPINION Trevor N. McFadden , United States District Judge . Plaintiffs Jeffrey Scudder, Ken Osgood, Hugh Wilford, and Mark Stout (collectively, "Plaintiffs") filed a two-count complaint against defendant Central Intelligence Agency (the "Defendant" or "CIA"), seeking a court order for the production of 386 documents electronically and a declaration that the Defendant's alleged policy or practice in determining whether documents are "readily reproducible" in electronic format is...
CONSENT TO MODIFY SUPERVISED RELEASE ELLEN S. HUVELLE , District Judge . All parties agree, for the reasons set forth on the record, that the Defendant's conditions of supervised release should be modified. In accordance with said agreement, it is hereby RECOMMENDED that the Defendant's conditions of supervised release be modified as follows: Defendant will comply with the wage allotment agreement in accordance with the U.S. Attorney's Office to have $25.00 taken from his wages bi-...
MEMORANDUM OPINION [Dkts. ##33, 34] RICHARD J. LEON , United States District Judge . Winkal Management, LLC ("plaintiff" or "Winkal") brings this action against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("defendant" or "FDIC") in its capacity as the Receiver for now-defunct Washington Mutual Bank ("WaMu"). Winkal seeks compensation under 12 U.S.C. 1821 for damages it allegedly suffered when the FDIC repudiated a lease agreement between Winkal and WaMu and turned the leased property ("...
