This week, Kennedy asked Biden nominee Robin M. Meriweather how many motions she has argued in the court of federal claims. In response, she said, “hundreds of motions involving complex civil claims in numerous courts, the court of federal claims is not one of those courts.”
Kennedy confirmed the answer was zero before he asked Meriweather to tell him the grounds for granting a new trial in the Court of Federal Claims.
Meriweather continuously dodged the senator’s question, refusing to answer the grounds for granting a new trial.
"All of the trials in the Court of
Federal Claims are bench trials and the Court of Federal Claims,
although it is not bound by the federal rules of civil procedure, its
rules mirror those rules when applicable. So it’s my understanding that
the same rules that would apply in the district court are also applied
in that context, but if I...Read more, seeXs and video here.
