Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Ted Hendricks Stadium in Hialeah, Florida, the United States, on November 8, 2023.
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A new york federal judge A law firm on Thursday rejected a request to withdraw from representing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, at least for now, in a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former 2016 campaign adviser. Arlene Delgado.
But Magistrate Judge Catherine Parker gave the law firm – LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Kittredge, Carlin & McPartland – to submit “a more detailed explanation” to her by Tuesday. “, indicating that its relationship with the Trump campaign was “irreparably broken.” The company was asked to withdraw from its representation in the case.
The day before Parker’s ruling, she held a closed-door meeting with the company’s attorneys and their clients to discuss the withdrawal.
“Defense counsel’s statements are insufficient at this time to authorize a retraction in this case,” Parker wrote in an order Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. “By May 7, 2024, defense counsel shall submit a more detailed statement setting out the basis for a deterioration in the attorney-client relationship sufficient for the court to evaluate the motion.”
Parker said Larocahonic will submit a detailed explanation of the withdrawal request but will not tell Delgado its contents to “protect the attorney-client privilege.”
She told the company to tell her whether it asserted a lien on its campaign and whether each of its clients agreed to withdraw.
In addition to the Trump campaign, the firm represents other defendants in Delgado’s lawsuit: Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon, who all worked on Trump’s Holding important positions in the White House.
“There has been an irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship between the firm and the campaign,” LaRocca Hornik told the judge in a court filing last week.
The document did not reveal what caused the failure.
Delgado opposed the withdrawal request.
Delgado’s lawsuit alleges that in late 2016, after she told campaign officials that she was pregnant by a senior Trump campaign adviser, Delgado was stripped of her duties as the Trump campaign’s Latino outreach adviser and director and Preventing her from taking her expected job in the White House.
The lawsuit alleges that the defendants breached a 2017 agreement to privately resolve her complaints for an undisclosed amount.
Parker’s order Thursday noted that because the Trump campaign “is an entity” — not a person — “it may not represent itself.”
“Accordingly, if the motion to withdraw is granted, the campaign will be at risk of default if replacement counsel is not promptly obtained,” the judge wrote. “This order does not prevent defendants from filing a request for replacement counsel by meeting any of the deadlines set forth herein. Provision is made to replace substitute counsel.
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