In a scathing opinion (PDF) issued Monday, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth accused the city and its attorneys of “repeated, flagrant, and unrepentant failures to comply with Court orders” in their handling of discovery in a six-year class action suit.
The case — brought over the city’s alleged failure to make preschool special education programs accessible — was scheduled for trial on April 6. When the parties arrived, however, plaintiffs counsel informed Lamberth that the city’s attorneys were continuing to “dump” thousands of e-mails and planned to continue releasing them even after the trial was over.
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