| As Richstone of Hercules
Medical Is Sued For Discrimination Now Trial
Ready 3 Feb 2021
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 11 – Leonides
Duverny sued Hercules Medical
P.C. and Geoffrey Richstone
for gender and national origin
discrimination, and overtime.
On August
14 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Denise L. Cote held a
telephone proceeding with
attorneys in the case
including Joshua Friedman and
Inner City Press called in.
Things got strange quickly.
Judge
Cote's deputy asked, Who just
called in?
"Inner City
Press."
Lawyer
asked, "What is the name of
the reporter?"
It seemed
strange, but the answer was
given: Matthew Russell Lee.
Lawyer
asked, Who do you spell that?
"Would you
ask that if these were in the
courtroom? Anyway, L-E-E."
The deputy,
a week after Inner City Press
was told not to speak when
counsel said they wanted no
media on a public call, asked
for the discussion to cease. Research
did not cease.
Some
other chambers don't ask the
press or others calling in to
identify themselves; one SDNY
judge explicitly says he
doesn't monitor who's on the
call (thought it seems he sees
the numbers).
When Judge
Cote came on, she reminded, No
recording, or sanction. Then
she discussed when the case
might be tried. There are
constraints.
Duverny
now lives in Haiti. Defendant
Geoffrey Richstone, according
even to re-filed Docket Number
78, has cancer treatments and
so requested any trial start
on Mondays in the second
and/or fourth week of the
month.
Now on December
11, finally an order on when
the trial would or could
start: February 3, 2021:
"ORDER: The Southern District
of New York is reconfiguring
courtrooms and other spaces in
its courthouses to allow civil
jury trials to proceed as
safely as possible during the
COVID-19 pandemic. On December
8, 2020 the Clerk of Court
notified district judges of
the dates on which jury
selection could commence and
trials could proceed in the
reconfigured spaces during
January through March 2021.
Accordingly, the parties are
hereby NOTIFIED that this
action has been placed on a
trial-ready calendar for
Wednesday, February 3, 2021.
It is hereby ORDERED that the
parties shall be prepared to
proceed to trial as of that
date and on each following
week through March 2021. The
parties are advised that they
will receive as much notice as
possible about whether their
case will proceed to trial in
any of those weeks. (Trial
Ready set for 2/3/2021 at
09:30 AM before Judge Denise
L. Cote.) (Signed by Judge
Denise L. Cote on 12/11/2020."
The case is
Duverny v. Hercules Medical
P.C. et al., 18-cv-07652
(Cote)
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