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Andrew C Laufer, Esq

@lauferlaw

Oct 2, 2023

Wanted to do a quick thread on #TeamTrump 's failure to request a jury for his civil trial instituted by @TishJames In general, it is the plaintiff's responsibility to file a Note of Issue which tells the Court that the parties are ready for trial. A Note of Issue is 1/

usually accompanied by a Jury Demand. At times, the plaintiff, in this case the NYAG, would not file a jury demand if they prefer to have a bench trial or a trial with the judge, and not a jury rendering a verdict. However, if a plaintiff fails to file a jury demand, the 2/

defendant can file one and pay a nominal fee to do so. Trump's legal counsel failed to do this which, imo, is a big mistake. The right wing types on this wonderful site will not tell you that there are a number of Trump supporters in NYC. A civil jury does not have to 3/

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Andrew C Laufer, Esq

@lauferlaw

Jan 9, 2023

Happy to report the settlement of a matter immediately prior to jury selection involving a 4th amendment detention/FA/Excessive force case in NYS Kings County. Client was briefing observing an altercation between other individuals in the street down the block from where he was 1/

doing laundry. On his way back to the laundromat he was approached by an undercover officer from the NYPD who immediately attempts to search him. Client pushes officers hands away and states you cannot do that. Officer tries again and client reacts in the same manner. 2/

Officer then places client in a frontal bear hug while other officers frisk him. Officer releases him from the bear hug after they find nothing illegal, then leave. The entire detention lasted less than 10 minutes. During his depo, officer claims he observed my client 3/

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Andrew C Laufer, Esq

@lauferlaw

Dec 9, 2022

It’s a good thing that Britteny Griner is home but we need to fully understand what we gave up to get her back & not be so flippant about it. Viktor Bout aka the “Merchant of Death” aided and abetted war criminals in the mass slaughter of people all over the world, especially 1/

in Africa. Hundreds of thousands were murdered with the weapons and ammo he provided to ppl like Charles Taylor. He obtained desperately needed hard currency to Russia throughout the 90s and 2000s in exchange for soviet weaponry Russia could no longer afford to maintain. 2/

Russia encouraged him to do this throughout Africa, Middle East, East Eur, & anywhere they could traffic their goods and further Moscow’s goals. He caused untold pain & suffering for 10s of millions. It took law enforcement years to bring him to justice. He served approx 11 3/

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Andrew C Laufer, Esq

@lauferlaw

Oct 26, 2022

Watched an interview this morning on Fox 5 - NYC between surrogates for Hochul and Zeldin. Zeldin surrogate kept hammering crime and bail reform completely mischaracterizing the issue. It was a great opportunity for the Hochul surrogate to pounce considering Zeldin supports 1/

criminal insurrectionists and the big lie. He could’ve also mentioned that bail reform went too far in limiting judges latitude but that has been corrected. On abortion, the Zeldin surrogate said that it’s a red herring and Zeldin said he wouldn’t seek a change NYS law. 2/

The Hochul surrogate said the Dobbs decision was a pivotal moment for all but he could’ve added that 3 SCOTUS justices stated under oath that Roe was the law and wouldn’t be changed but then it was changed. He could’ve continued that Republicans say one thing to get elected 3/

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Andrew C Laufer, Esq

@lauferlaw

Sep 27, 2022

@ejeancarroll

The Second Circuit issued a decision today in @ejeancarroll ‘s defamation lawsuit against Trump. It partially reversed the lower court by determining Trump is an employee of the federal government and as such, cannot be sued for actions in his 1/

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personal capacity where they are in furtherance of his official duties as POTUS. Hence, if the lower court determines that Trump was acting officially, the United States government will be substituted for him in the lawsuit as a defendant. The secondary impact will be 2/

that Ms. Carroll’s defamation action would be dismissed since you cannot seek redress for defamation under the Federal Tort Claims Act. There is also a requirement that you must notify the gov and the department which you intend to sue within 2 years of the unlawful act. 3/

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