Opinion
2:23-cv-1712
01-24-2024
DALE HARVEY, Petitioner, v. GARANN ROSE MEANS, Respondent.
MINUTE ORDER
The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable Jamal N. Whitehead, United States District Judge:
On January 24, 2024, Respondent Garann Rose Means sent an email to Courtroom Deputy, Grant Cogswell, requesting that her witnesses be allowed to appear remotely via Zoom at the evidentiary hearing on Friday, January 26, 2024. The Court has already granted Harvey's motion to allow his witnesses in Scotland to testify remotely. See Dkt. No. 51.
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), “witnesses' testimony must be taken in open court” but “[f]or good cause . . . the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 43(a). Here, the Court finds good cause to allow Means's witnesses to testify remotely given the expedited nature of the proceedings. Accordingly, the Court GRANTS Means's request for virtual testimony.