By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 13 – Michael Menzies sued the Long Island Railroad Company, where he worked as a radio technician untli May 24, 2018.
On September 28 U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge John G. Koeltl held a proceeding. Inner City Press covered it.
Judge Koeltl noted that they still have their October 5 trial date, but no one knows if it will actually happen, given the COVID era scheduling and the prioritization of criminal cases with detained defendants.
Still, if the trial does go forward, Judge Koeltl ordered the parties to be sure to bring hard copies of exhibits.
Counsel responded that in another SDNY case a USB of exhibits had been sent into the jury room.
Judge Koeltl said his way is to give the jurors only those exhibits they ask for, so in hard copy, not USB or laptop.
In fact, the trial was taking place on January 11 and January 12; Inner City Press covered both days. At the end of January 12, the jury of 8 still had not reached a decision and sent a note, Court Exhibit 5.
On January 13, Inner City Press was in the courtroom when the jury came back with a verdict, for Menzies, for a total of $2,340,760. Judge Koeltl told the jurors they had done their duty, and suggested they not speak to the press. [Elswhere in SDNY, in US v. Ghislaine Maxwell, this was not said - and now Inner City Press is reporting on the fall out].
This case is Menzies v. Long Island Railroad Company, 19-cv-11235 (Koeltl)
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