But lawyers for Justice Diaz and Mr. Minor assert that the judge declined to participate in any case involving Mr. Minor.
Lawyers for Mr. Corley have appealed, asserting that the judge's injunction violates his First Amendment right to free speech.
He also ridiculed this week's court ruling by Sir Robert Owen, asserting that the judge had "clearly gone mad" and that the allegations were "nonsense".
"I came here feeling I am a loser regardless," he said, asserting that the judge has ignored the suffering of 30,000 American survivors.
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the ruling that struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, asserting that the judge's 10-year relationship with another man did not disqualify him from deciding the case.
Mr. Diop's attorney, Ramon Pagan, said the verdict should be overturned, asserting that the judge's jury instructions were incorrect and that several witnesses were lying to obtain lighter sentences.
The judge asserted that the plaintiffs, despite years of opportunity, had failed to provide any evidence that the affair was a grand conspiracy rather than a bureaucratic mistake, and said that "this court is left to conclude that with the lawsuit, to quote Gertrude Stein, 'there's no there there.'" Nussbaum, one of the defendants, derisively said "No kidding" when informed of the dismissal.
In appealing the ruling, Napster asserted that the standard set by Judge Patel was impossible to meet.
A $40 million computer system designed to track Indian trust money does not work and may not be salvageable, said a court-appointed investigator, who also asserted that the government misled a judge about its effectiveness.
