Court Opinion

ID: 9441997
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 18:22:56.49831+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:28:48.700887
License: Public Domain

KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I write separately to express dismay over the herculean effort the plaintiff has had to expend simply to get his day in court. It has taken twenty-five years, a criminal trial, eleven appellate judges as well as all participating members of the United States Supreme Court — not one of whom has rejected his claim as a matter of law — to get to the point that a jury will finally hear and decide if government officials engaged in pay-back because the plaintiff sought to do business with the government. To say that this has not been the government’s finest hour is a colossal, and lamentable, understatement.