| LIRR Case
Made It To Trial Now Menzies Wins Over $2
Million in 8-Juror SDNY Verdict
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
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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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