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Court refuses to combine dozens of cases over Clinton emails
A federal court is denying the State Department’s efforts for judges to coordinate on the roughly three-dozen pending lawsuits related to former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s emails.
The decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is a setback for the department, which had complained that the multiple legal fronts were draining its limited resources.
But the multiple cases were at such different points in their development, Chief Judge Richard Roberts wrote in an order released Thursday, it made little sense to combine them.
“Many of the underlying cases have been pending for several years and a significant number of scheduling orders have already been entered,” Roberts wrote.
The decision to deny the State Department’s request was unanimous, Roberts added.
However, he noted that individual judges have “committed to informal coordination so as to avoid unnecessary inefficiencies and confusion.”
The State Department has complained about the multiple public records lawsuits, which seek to force into the light various documents from Clinton’s personal server during her time at State.
Last month, the government filed a request seeking to have a single judge coordinate responses to 32 of them. That would cut down on the “confusion, inefficiencies and advantages given to some requesters at the expense of others,” the department claimed.
A federal court is denying the State Department’s efforts for judges to coordinate on the roughly three-dozen pending lawsuits related to former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s emails.
The decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is a setback for the department, which had complained that the multiple legal fronts were draining its limited resources.
But the multiple cases were at such different points in their development, Chief Judge Richard Roberts wrote in an order released Thursday, it made little sense to combine them.
“Many of the underlying cases have been pending for several years and a significant number of scheduling orders have already been entered,” Roberts wrote.
The decision to deny the State Department’s request was unanimous, Roberts added.
However, he noted that individual judges have “committed to informal coordination so as to avoid unnecessary inefficiencies and confusion.”
The State Department has complained about the multiple public records lawsuits, which seek to force into the light various documents from Clinton’s personal server during her time at State.
Last month, the government filed a request seeking to have a single judge coordinate responses to 32 of them. That would cut down on the “confusion, inefficiencies and advantages given to some requesters at the expense of others,” the department claimed.
