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Work dorking out so bad
Jan. 28th, 2015 10:32 amOh you lying bitch...
NotARealEdit: I mean this witness may lack credibility
So I'm working at home, exclusively due to medical restrictions - and thanks to my boss not assigning new cases as we have 2 new employees, I've been really focusing on the cases I do have. Yesterday I got a block of 3 arbitration requests withdrawn at once (that was lots of luck, sort of a low stakes procedural win).
I'm also guilt-free as I notified my boss my caseload was light.
But today, oh today...I have this case where someone claims an event happened - and she doesn't know one of the managers actually kept notes from the event. The problem is the notes show a date more than a year earlier ... we thought at first the date the manager recorded was wrong, but the more I work the case the less I believe the complainant.
So I dug into her pile of mostly illegible personal notes submitted during discovery - hundreds of pages, as she literally walks around with a daily log and writes down where everyone is to prove they follow her (she requested a congressional investigation and hearing) and realized while mostly illegible, there is a tiny julian date in the corner. So I looked up the date in question - and found the corresponding page.
Then I spent time translating her writing and realized that, if I'm reading this right, not only did the event not happen that day - but on the day she cites, the complainant claims the managers talked about the complainant's prior accusation, showing the event preceded the day she claims it happened. This, combined with a manager who took contemporary notes on the day in question, makes it not only far more likely that our folks are telling the truth, but that the event preceded a prior hearing (and is therefore also barred as subject to prior litigation over the same events and time period) PLUS indicates that the complainant more likely than not fabricated the date to make a viable claim, aka lied under oath repeatedly.
Yes, this the same one who told 3 different things about her history to 3 different people.
These teeny tiny little things give me such joy. Perhaps I should be ashamed that I spend so much time trying to fact-disprove a pro se litigant - a better lawyer could spot this in a minute. Me, it was weeks-days-hours, but at the same time - right now I'm just happy I can prove what she says is likely not true with her own handwritten notes. Squee!
NotARealEdit: I mean this witness may lack credibility
So I'm working at home, exclusively due to medical restrictions - and thanks to my boss not assigning new cases as we have 2 new employees, I've been really focusing on the cases I do have. Yesterday I got a block of 3 arbitration requests withdrawn at once (that was lots of luck, sort of a low stakes procedural win).
I'm also guilt-free as I notified my boss my caseload was light.
But today, oh today...I have this case where someone claims an event happened - and she doesn't know one of the managers actually kept notes from the event. The problem is the notes show a date more than a year earlier ... we thought at first the date the manager recorded was wrong, but the more I work the case the less I believe the complainant.
So I dug into her pile of mostly illegible personal notes submitted during discovery - hundreds of pages, as she literally walks around with a daily log and writes down where everyone is to prove they follow her (she requested a congressional investigation and hearing) and realized while mostly illegible, there is a tiny julian date in the corner. So I looked up the date in question - and found the corresponding page.
Then I spent time translating her writing and realized that, if I'm reading this right, not only did the event not happen that day - but on the day she cites, the complainant claims the managers talked about the complainant's prior accusation, showing the event preceded the day she claims it happened. This, combined with a manager who took contemporary notes on the day in question, makes it not only far more likely that our folks are telling the truth, but that the event preceded a prior hearing (and is therefore also barred as subject to prior litigation over the same events and time period) PLUS indicates that the complainant more likely than not fabricated the date to make a viable claim, aka lied under oath repeatedly.
Yes, this the same one who told 3 different things about her history to 3 different people.
These teeny tiny little things give me such joy. Perhaps I should be ashamed that I spend so much time trying to fact-disprove a pro se litigant - a better lawyer could spot this in a minute. Me, it was weeks-days-hours, but at the same time - right now I'm just happy I can prove what she says is likely not true with her own handwritten notes. Squee!
