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Law Practice

Mar. 11, 2022

Battle for Eastman’s emails: Scenes from the courtroom

Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, Carter issued a decision: He will read the emails and their attachments in camera, and then “determine for each document whether any privilege existed, whether that privilege was waived, and whether any exemptions apply.

Michael Stockstill

Michael is the co-author of a forthcoming book on the history of the Irvine Ranch. A former journalist and public affairs executive, he resides in Irvine.

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History is being made -- quietly -- in District Judge David O. Carter's courtroom on the ninth floor of the gleaming Ronald Reagan Courthouse in Santa Ana.

I was one of just two civilians in the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday as Carter quizzed attorneys for John Eastman, the renegade conservative law professor, a...

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