{"id":2450,"date":"2023-04-14T21:54:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T21:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/document\/219-0-order-on-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:11:36","slug":"219-0-order-on-sanctions-phillip-brumley","status":"publish","type":"dlp_document","link":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/document\/219-0-order-on-sanctions-phillip-brumley\/","title":{"rendered":"219-0 Order on Sanctions Against Watch Tower Attorney Phillip Brumley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 14th, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before the Court is Plaintiffs Tracy Caekaert and Camillia Mapley&#8217;s Affidavit\/Declaration of Supporting Documents of Costs, Expenses, and Attorney Fees (<a href=\"http:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/document\/144-0-affidavit-of-ryan-shaffer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Doc. 144<\/span><\/a>) filed pursuant to the Court&#8217;s grant of Plaintiff s Motion for Sanctions (<a href=\"http:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/document\/court-order-on-sanctions-against-philip-brumley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Doc. 135, &#8220;Order&#8221;<\/span><\/a>). Plaintiffs request $190,723.11 for costs, expenses, and attorneys&#8217; fees. Defendant Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (&#8220;WTPA&#8221;) objects to some of the hours Plaintiffs&#8217; attorneys expended as excessive, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary. (<a href=\"http:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/document\/165-0-watch-tower-brief-in-response-to-plaintiffs-affidavit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Doc. 165)<\/span><\/a>. WTPA also asks the Court to stay the payment of sanctions pending appeal. {Id.).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the following reasons, the Court grants Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel<\/strong> <strong>$154,448.11<\/strong> and denies WTPA&#8217;s request to stay payment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For these reasons, Plaintiffs&#8217; attorneys are awarded $154,448.11 for WTP A&#8217;s sanctioned conduct in this case and in the companion case, Rowland v. Watchtower Tract and Bible Society of New York, CV 20-59-BLG-SPW. The Court denies WTPA&#8217;s request to stay payment of this sanction pending appeal.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>References:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/document\/court-order-on-sanctions-against-philip-brumley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 23rd Order on Sanctions against Phillip Brumley and Watch Tower Pennsylvania<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>219-0 Order on Sanctions Against Phillip Brumley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"doc_categories":[75],"doc_tags":[76,77],"doc_author":[],"file_type":[14],"class_list":["post-2450","dlp_document","type-dlp_document","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","doc_categories-caecaert-v-watchtower","doc_tags-caekaert-v-watchtower","doc_tags-philip-brumley","file_type-pdf"],"download_url":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/219-0-Order-on-Sanctions.pdf","file_size":"1 MB","filename":"219-0-Order-on-Sanctions.pdf","download_count":"398","version_history":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dlp_document\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dlp_document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dlp_document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tags?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"doc_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_author?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"file_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwchildabuse.org\/xqllht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/file_type?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}