Part of the 8th floor of the Federal District Court in Santa Ana, capital city of Orange County, California is populated by a number of AUSA’s, Assistant US Attorneys, who are the Prosecutors of motions, trials etc., and do their work out of there.
They are always there and their senior supervisor assigns them to cases. Probably the two most senior ones were in Judge Carter's courtroom for this and as you can see were tasked with opposing the default judgment as part of their daily duties.
As needed or depending where a case was developed they might bring some AUSA’s from Los Angeles or even fly them in from Washington D.C.
Some cases, including one in which I participated as part of the court with Judge Carter have components from all over the country and all over the world.
Luckily Judge Carter specializes in Complex Cases and when I was there we had some eight or nine defendants and a dozen lawyers, some who flew in from out of State.
His ordering the AUSA’s to “accept service” is in line with his mindset not to allow purely procedural obstacles prevent an airing of the case and forcing. He is short with tap dancing attorneys on either side but will sit and listen, if need be for half an hour, to allow a valid point to be made.
He does not side more easily (as some judges seem to do) with the government prosecutors though he is extremely even handed, thoughtful and courteous with them. Again never hurrying them.
Because of his refusal to hurry people when they present their view or evidence, his court sessions can be very long. One of mine started at 8 a.m. and ended at 1 a.m. for a 17 HOUR court session.
His started at 6 am and he did not leave till quite a while after we did at 1 am.
Very thoughtful, steady, detailed, highly experienced,respected, meticulous workaholic with strong feelings for fairness and giving people the chance to voice and present their views.
Unless he gets killed or has a weakness that would coerce him into setting aside his strong principles and love for the country, we could not have a better judge for this situation.
Thanks FARS, very good evaluation of the CA judge.
It is very good to know that he is going to be fair and not allow a legitimate case to be stonewalled by BSing lawyers..
They’re usually referred to as “county seats” rather than “capitol cities.”
Thanks for the info and for the ping(s)!
Did you see this post by FARS Regarding the CA judge?
Good news, thanks for the ping.