Judge Lamberth, accomplice. FHFA files a motion for JMOL. Under Rule 50 (b) and filed under seal, without the reply to the FHFA's Wall Street law firm of a question submitted last Friday, asking whether it can skip the page limitation to 55 pages. Without the judge's required reply, the judge skips having to forfeit the motion at the same time, for the reasons outlined yesterday. It was imprudent to file an oral motion for JMOL Rule 50(a) previously, during the trial, because the Rule requires that both have to have the same sufficiency-of-the-evidence arguments. It isn't satisfied with an oral motion by any stretch of the imagination.
Therefore, judge Lamberth is accomplice of this delay tactic. The judge has waived what his job requires, pointed out in my follow-up:
Sealed motions and oral motions add up to obscurantism.