UNITED STATES
v.
MAINE ET AL.
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The Court appointed a Senior District Judge as Special Master to manage further proceedings and evidence gathering in the case.
The case required further proceedings, including the filing of additional pleadings and the taking of evidence. The Court found it necessary to appoin…
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It is ordered that the Honorable Walter E. Hoffman, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, is appointed Special Master in this case with authority to fix the time and conditions for the filing of additional pleadings and to direct subsequent proceedings, and with authority to summon witnesses, issue subpoenas, and take such evidence as may be introduced and such as he may deem necessary to call for. The Master is directed to submit such reports as he may deem appropriate.
The Master shall be allowed his actual expenses. The allowances to him, the compensation paid to his technical, stenographic, and clerical assistants, the cost of printing his report, and all other proper expenses shall be charged against and be borne by the parties in such proportion as the Court may hereafter direct.
It is further ordered that if the position of Special Master in this case becomes vacant during a recess of the Court, The Chief Justice shall have authority to make a new designation which shall have the same effect as if originally made by the Court. [For earlier orders herein, see, e. g., 423 U. S. 1.]