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Response To Twitters Motion To Gag - Court Binder
Response To Twitters Motion To Gag - Court Binder
Response To Twitters Motion To Gag - Court Binder
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Case: 23-1555 Document: 00118084588 Page: 2 Date Filed: 12/12/2023 Entry ID: 6609564
I. General Response
Hall’s motions to this Appeals Court seek to either judicially notice
or allow by Rule, (1) material facts regarding Magistrate “Johnstone’s”
illegal pro hac vice policy because they are undisputed and indisputable
in this case AND (2) Elon Musk’s supervening public admissions as
undisputed non-hearsay.
Throughout the case Twitter has omitted and attempted to bury the
material facts that Johnstone’s illegal policies existed and resulted in 68
proven favors from the District Court to Twitter. Now Twitter states in
its Motion that these material facts Hall wishes to judicially notice, are
“disputed and unsupported “facts” are either properly disputed or
unsubstantiated,” which is untrue because Twitter has continuously,
throughout the case, failed to dispute material facts submitted by Hall.
In the process of omitting throughout, that Johnstone’s policy even
existed other than in the mind of Hall, Twitter failed to dispute any of
the material facts submitted by Hall either in his motions, declarations,
briefs to the District Court or this Appeals Court regarding Magistrate
Johnstone’s illegal pro hac vice policies which favored Twitter. Twitter
cannot now claim that these material facts Hall wishes to judicial notice
are now in dispute, because Twitter never disputed these material facts
to begin with.
Regarding Musk’s public admissions which have supervened since
the disputed decision was issued, Twitter fails to demonstrate clear or
obvious hearsay error and only mentions Musk’s public admissions as
hearsay only in passing and without providing any evidence to support
it.
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II. Standard
Hall agrees that this Appeals Court has the discretion to manage
and control its docket in some form or fashion, and to enter appropriate
orders governing the conduct of counsel and parties, Johnson v.
Morgenthau, 160 F.3d 897, 899 (2d Cir. 1998), but would argue that this
“discretion” and the degree to which it is applied, is not unlimited and is
bound by the relevant provisions of the Appellate rules, Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure and relevant case law dealing with similar procedural
matters. See Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard, 452 U.S. 89, 100, 101 S.Ct. 2193,
2200, 68 L.Ed.2d 693 (1981); See, Tiller v. Baghdady, 244 F.3d 9, 14 (1st
Cir. 2001), (“a trial court's discretion is not unlimited.”) Moreover, all
writs must be “agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” 28 U.S.C.
§ 1651.
The Court also must be alert of suppressing a particular point of
view. Forsyth County, 505 U.S. at 130, 112 S.Ct. 2395 (internal quotation
marks omitted); See also Se. Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad, 420 U.S. 546,
553, 95 S.Ct. 1239, 43 L.Ed.2d 448 (1975). Since limiting communications
causes its own problems, an exercise of discretion limiting
communication must be supported by a " clear record and specific
findings that reflect a weighing of the need for a limitation and the
potential for interference with the rights of the parties. Only such a
determination can ensure that the court is furthering, rather than
hindering, the policies embodied in the Rules, especially Rule 10,
Procedural Rules of evidence 201, 801, and 804. In addition, such a
weighing-identifying the potential abuses being addressed-should result
in a carefully drawn order that limits speech as little as possible,
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consistent with the rights of the parties under the circumstances. Gulf
Oil Co. at 101-02, 101 S.Ct. at 2200-01. Finally, any order imposing a
serious restraint on expression must be " justified by a likelihood of
serious abuses." The " mere possibility of abuses" is insufficient to
support a ban on communications. Id. at 104, 101 S.Ct. at 2202. See also,
Payne v. the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co., 207 F.R.D. 16, 18-19 (D. Mass.
2002).
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6. Hall’s D. 104 motion for recusal of Judge Elliot sets forth material
facts describing Johnstone’s illegal pro hac vice policy and how it
was utilized by Elliot, and a D. 104-2, P. 3, declaration in support
of these material facts. Twitter in describing Hall’s complaint to
the Merit Selection Panel, was “about Magistrate Judge
Johnstone’s allegedly “illegal” pro hac vice policies.” D. 109,
10. Hall’s D. 142 Rule 60 motion to vacate sets forth material facts
describing Johnstone’s illegal pro hac vice policy and how it was
utilized in his case. Twitter Made No Response in rebuttal to
these material facts.
11. Hall’s D. 143 motion for Reconsideration sets forth material facts
describing Johnstone’s illegal pro hac vice policy and how it was
utilized in his case. Twitter Made No Response in rebuttal to
these material facts.
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Hall has Replied, arguing that Rule 10 does allow for modification,
and that even if extraordinary circumstances were a requirement,
they have been met here, and that the Court also has equity powers
in the interest of justice. (Dkt. 00118082579).
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Of the 29 motions after the District Court’s [D. 54] order, 12 were
filed in between Order 54 and Twitter’s reintroduction of its Dkt.
3 Motion to Dismiss after interlocutory appeals.
And even though [D. 54] order notes that Hall’s declaratory relief
“motions are not cognizable under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure”;
And “Such declaratory relief is neither proper nor necessary”; And “Those
“facts” will be resolved in due course, as necessary to resolve the parties’
dispute.” And that Hall has “demonstrated propensity to file numerous
meritless and/or unnecessary motions”, it still does not rise to level of
abuse required to sanction Hall. Nowhere in order [D. 54] does the Court
mention or does Twitter in its Motion to Stay, [D. 24, 24-1](or in any
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submissions Hall may file until the Court issues its decision on the
merits.
Respectfully,
/s/ Daniel E. Hall
Plaintiff, Appellant
Pro Se
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that on December 12, 2023, I served the foregoing Motion upon
the Defendant, through its attorney of record to Demetrio F. Aspiras,
counsel of record via the Court’s electronic filing system.
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A. HALL’S 45 MOTIONS
11. 08/06/2020 45 MOTION Rule 5.1 Motion Challenging the Constitutionality of Title
47 USC Code § 230.
16. 08/19/2020 52 MOTION for Leave to File Reply and MOL to Objection
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ORDER 54
21. 03/18/2021 74 EMERGENCY MOTION to Set Aside Orders Under Rule (60)(b)
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25. 09/14/2022 90 MOTION to Reconsider its August 29, 2022 Order Requiring
Compulsion of Plaintiff's True Name
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B. TWITTER’S 12 MOTIONS
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ORDER 54
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