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earlier told Bakutes that attorney’s fees were not awarded in the
settlement, DeCastro admitted in this conversation that the
deficiencies were reduced to pay the Thompsons’ legal fees for
his representation of them in the test case trial.
On or about June 11, 1992, Sanchez decided that Sims and
McWade should no longer have any authority over the Kersting
cases and that the cases should be assigned to other attorneys
who had been involved in the Kersting project. Bakutes
accordingly reassigned the 14 test case dockets to Thomas A.
Dombrowski (Dombrowski) and the nontest cases to Henry E. O’Neill
(O’Neill).
On June 22, 1992, Judge Goffe denied respondent’s request for
an evidentiary hearing and ordered the parties to file agreed
decisions with the Court, “or otherwise move within 30 days of
the date hereof.”
In a separate order filed on the same date, the Court denied
respondent’s motion to vacate the decision filed in Rina’s case,
stating:
The Court has reviewed the testimony of Cravens,
the testimony of Thompson, the stipulated facts and
stipulated exhibits relating to the Cravenses and the
Thompsons, and the exhibits offered through Thompson as
a witness. The Court finds that these reviewed items
had no material effect on the opinion which the Court
filed on December 11, 1991, as that opinion relates to
petitioner Rina. If the reviewed items were stricken
from the record, the Court would file an opinion in all
material respects like the opinion it filed on December
11, 1991 (with the exception of certain portions
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