Allan Favish is a Los Angeles-based attorney whose focus is on General Insurance Defense and Litigation Insurance Coverage/Reinsurance & Bad Faith Litigation. A UCLA graduate, he received his J.D. at Hastings College of Law in 1981.
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1 in that case. It's beyond understanding how the glasses
2 located next to Mr. Foster's body could shed any light
3 on how -- whether it's Mr. Foster, or whether the Office
4 of Independent Counsel performed its job.
5 THE COURT: I really don't think whether
6 Mr. Foster performed his job is the issue.
7 MS. LUYMES: May I add one --
8 THE COURT: Yes.
9 MS. LUYMES: I'm sorry. Were you in mid breath
10 there, your Honor?
11 THE COURT: No, go ahead.
12 MS. LUYMES: Okay. You had asked with regard
13 to taking something up to the Ninth Circuit. Let me
14 just indicate that there was a case that I was involved
15 in called Spurlock v. FBI, which has been cited, and in
16 that case, which arose out of this district, once Judge
17 Real had found that the documents fell within the
18 exemptions, he ordered the FBI to do something else, and
19 the Ninth Circuit said "No, you have no jurisdictions to
20 do that." So the Court's instincts in this regard, in
21 my view, in defendant's view, are absolutely correct.
22 I actually think that there is a reported case,
23 I can visualize, you know, a discussion on the
24 right-hand side of the page, but I could -- if you
25 needed the citation, I would be happy to look it up and