Theranos case and coronavirus: Judge provoked as founder Elizabeth Holmes asks for safety-order exemptions

Theranos case and coronavirus: Judge provoked as founder Elizabeth Holmes asks for safety-order exemptions

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/04/01/theranos-case-and-coronavirus-judge-provoked-as-founder-elizabeth-holmes-asks-for-safety-order-exemptions/

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asked the federal court judge overseeing her criminal fraud case to order her legal team’s work essential and exempt from coronavirus safety restrictions so that her lawyers and their agents could perform tasks they say might provoke hostility. But U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila on Wednesday wasted no time attacking the request.

“You’re asking the court to violate other orders in the midst of a national crisis,” Davila said in a case-status meeting held by conference call because of shelter-in-place orders. “I guess I’m just concerned about the tone of your order. The tone of it is, ‘Well, Judge, if you want us to go forward with this hearing you’re going to have to order us to violate other jurisdictions’ orders and that’s what we’re asking you to do in a very publicly filed way.’”