He asked for -- and got -- limits on punitive damages, curbs on awards in cases with multiple defendants and restrictions on where suits can be filed.
Rather, the delay seems to be the product of a complex case with multiple defendants and complicated issues that judges have been asked to resolve.
In Litzman v. Humboldt County and Skipworth v. Lead Industries Association, we look at causation when there are multiple defendants and it is not possible to identify which one of them was responsible for the harm, yet harm clearly happened due to the negligence of at least one defendant.
Conspiracy charges are generally difficult to prove, legal experts said, but they offer prosecutors a great reward: they can bring down multiple defendants at once and wipe out entire pockets of crime.
For the past three years, the OCDA and OCSD have been embroiled in a sprawling jailhouse informant scandal ― one that may have involved the violation of multiple defendants' civil rights, and that threatens to upend a number of already settled cases.
In making his decision, the judge cited provisions of the guidelines that allow such term reductions, and said that "multiple defendants were arrested, prosecuted and eventually sentenced, not just in the United States, but in England and Canada as well" as a result of Mr. Babar's cooperation.
He added: "I consider that there are particular challenges in prosecuting complex and interlinked cases, as in this instance, involving serious sexual abuse and terrorist related charges and involving multiple complainants and multiple defendants.
See generally Ruder, Multiple Defendants in Securities Law Fraud Cases: Aiding and Abetting, Conspiracy, In Pari Delicto, Indemnification and Contribution, 120 U.Pa.L.Rev.
See also Lanza v. Drexel & Co., 479 F.2d 1277, 1301, 1303-1304 (CA2 1973) (en banc); Ruder, Multiple Defendants in Securities Law Fraud Cases: Aiding and Abetting, Conspiracy, In Pari Delicto, Indemnification, and Contribution, 120 U.Pa.L.Rev.
He alleges that county prosecutors and police have violated multiple defendants' rights by illegally obtaining, and sometimes withholding, evidence received from jail informants. .
Sanders argues that county prosecutors and police have violated multiple defendants' rights by illegally obtaining, and sometimes withholding, evidence gleaned from jail informants.
