The Honorable Justice Randall Wilkinson, Orange County Superior Court, took "under advisement" the decision on the preliminary injunction in the Minuteman case today, wherein Plaintiff Jim Gilchrist is suing his former colleagues on the Defendant Board of Directors for control of the organization he founded.
It is very unwise for a lawyer in a case to speculate on a Judge’s decision (I represent the Defendants!). And I will not speculate. But I will observe for my readers that Gilchrist lost a motion for a temporary restraining order in late February, and the Judge today decided to not rule from the bench on the "shortened time" hearing on Gilchrist’s request for a preliminary injunction. Preliminary injunctions are based in part on urgency and need for "immediate" relief.
But, on the other hand, anything can happen in a California court. Just ask OJ!
I’ll report on the decision in the case, which is expected to be received in the mail in a few days.
It was a busy day at Orange County Superior Court Main Branch in Santa Ana today! As I was "enjoying" my egg salad sandwich in the sad Cafeteria on the third floor, waiting for the Gilchrist case to begin on the sixth floor at 1:30 in Department C-19, I got to say hello to Mike Schroeder and Mike Houston, representing Trung Nygyen in the recount case, who were also there enjoying some sort of strange luncheon meat, and waiting for their case to begin next door in Department C-20.