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Extraction Summary
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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Deposition transcript (rough draft)
File Size:
1.51 MB
Summary
This document is a page from a rough draft deposition transcript, likely from the House Oversight Committee investigation (indicated by Bates stamp). A witness, who is a law professor at the University of Utah, explains a clerical error regarding a missing footnote in a legal filing ('Exhibit 2'). The witness clarifies that the Dean of the law school did not order a correction after the fact, but rather had previously suggested using such footnotes, and the omission was a simple word processing or copy-paste error that the witness voluntarily corrected upon discovery.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
|---|---|---|
| The Witness | Deponent / Law Professor |
Testifying about legal filings and pro bono work; employed at the University of Utah.
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| The Dean | Dean of the Law School |
Suggested including a footnote in legal filings; supportive of the witness's pro bono work.
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| Questioner | Interviewer |
Asking questions about the timeline of filing Exhibit 2 and the dean's involvement.
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Organizations (1)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| University of Utah |
Employer of the witness; institution supportive of the witness's pro bono work.
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Timeline (2 events)
A couple of days after filing Exhibit 2
Witness realized a footnote was missing due to a clerical error and filed a correction.
Unspecified
Unspecified (prior to deposition)
Locations (1)
| Location | Context |
|---|---|
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Mentioned as the reason the witness is employed there.
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Relationships (2)
Witness works at University of Utah where the Dean is employed; Dean advises on legal formatting.
Witness states 'that's one of the reasons I'm at the University of Utah.'
Key Quotes (4)
"I do a lot pro bono litigation for crime victims all over the country"Source
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"The star footnote had dropped off."Source
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Quote #2
"They have been very supportive of my pro bono work in this case as well as in other cases"Source
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Quote #3
"The signature block possibly was a cut-and-paste from an earlier pleading"Source
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Full Extracted Text
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1 Q. So is it accurate that after you filed what's
2 Exhibit 2, that the dean of the law school asked you to
3 file a corrected version with the footnote?
4 A. No. That misunderstands what I said. Early
5 on, just in talking -- I do a lot pro bono litigation
6 for crime victims all over the country, and I do that,
7 that's one of the reasons I'm at the University of Utah.
8 They have been very supportive of my pro bono work in
9 this case as well as in other cases, and so the dean
10 said, well, one of the things just might be helpful is
11 to drop a footnote. I don't think it was required that
12 I drop the footnote, nobody suggested it would be useful
13 to drop the footnote, and so I agreed to do that in this
14 case and in other cases as well, but somehow in this
15 particular pleading, the -- as I say, the signature
16 block possibly was a cut-and-paste from an earlier
17 pleading in the case, possibly it was some issue
18 involving that section feature of the word processing
19 program. The star footnote had dropped off.
20 And so once I realized that without anyone
21 calling that to my attention when I looked at the brief
22 a couple of days after we filed it, and said, oh, I need
23 to fix that and did, indeed, fix that as quickly as I
24 could.
25 Q. What was the context in which the dean asked
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1 Q. So is it accurate that after you filed what's
2 Exhibit 2, that the dean of the law school asked you to
3 file a corrected version with the footnote?
4 A. No. That misunderstands what I said. Early
5 on, just in talking -- I do a lot pro bono litigation
6 for crime victims all over the country, and I do that,
7 that's one of the reasons I'm at the University of Utah.
8 They have been very supportive of my pro bono work in
9 this case as well as in other cases, and so the dean
10 said, well, one of the things just might be helpful is
11 to drop a footnote. I don't think it was required that
12 I drop the footnote, nobody suggested it would be useful
13 to drop the footnote, and so I agreed to do that in this
14 case and in other cases as well, but somehow in this
15 particular pleading, the -- as I say, the signature
16 block possibly was a cut-and-paste from an earlier
17 pleading in the case, possibly it was some issue
18 involving that section feature of the word processing
19 program. The star footnote had dropped off.
20 And so once I realized that without anyone
21 calling that to my attention when I looked at the brief
22 a couple of days after we filed it, and said, oh, I need
23 to fix that and did, indeed, fix that as quickly as I
24 could.
25 Q. What was the context in which the dean asked
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