The court system defendants “have decided to simply ignore the Order of this Court to turn over documents and to appear for depositions,” stated a memorandum of law that was filed Wednesday in support of justices’ motion for contempt of court to be ordered. The memorandum is signed by several lawyers at Morrison Cohen, including partners Scharf, Danielle Lesser and David Saxe, and by James Catterson, a partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.

The memo in support also stated, “Our court system plays the central role in upholding the rule of law. The rule of law ensures that no one is beneath the protection of the law and no one is free from the obligation to comply with it, including the Chief Judge [DiFiore] of the Unified Court System and the Court of Appeals as well as the Chief Administrative Judge [Marks].”