More than a year after the death of conservative blogger and web publisher Andrew Breitbart, a Washington federal trial judge expressed frustration on Wednesday that Breitbart's role in a defamation lawsuit remained unsettled. The judge threatened to hold lawyers in contempt unless he gets answers.
Breitbart's former counsel at Katten Muchin Rosenman bore the brunt of U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's irritation as he pushed for information about unresolved issues related to Breitbart's death—chiefly, whether he left a will and whether there was an estate that could be substituted as a party. Leon said he had an "uneasy feeling" about Katten's level of cooperation and said a law firm of its stature should "not be a party to games like this."
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