Michael Cohen loses bid for restraining order against Stormy Daniels' lawyer

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Judge says Cohen had not shown he would suffer ‘irreparable injury’ without emergency relief against Michael Avenatti

A federal judge on Friday refused to grant Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, an immediate restraining order against the attorney for the adult film actor Stormy Daniels.

US district judge James Otero said Cohen had not shown he would suffer “immediate, irreparable injury” without emergency relief against Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti.

Daniels claims to have had a sexual relationship with Trump. In October 2016, Cohen set up a limited liability corporation, Essential Consulting, that was used to pay Daniels as part of a hush agreement. Cohen was reimbursed by the president.

Cohen has been under the microscope since FBI agents raided residences and an office belonging to him on 9 April.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/15/michael-cohen-restraining-order-stormy-daniels-lawyer

[wcmagumba]

1. Good! nt

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Hmm

Please protect me from the lawyer who's about to turn me out? Where's all the loud bragadocio(sp) etc? no loud threatening calls to Avenatti saying how bad he (Cohens) going to destroy his life and career etc?? What a little bitch all of a sudden.

[Cha]

3. HaHa.

[Gothmog]

4. Here is the order of the court

Link to tweet

[Jim Lane]

5. More precisely, Cohen loses bid for IMMEDIATE restraining order.

Courts greatly prefer to do business in regular order, meaning that a party seeking relief puts in papers explaining why, after which any other party gets time to put in papers on the same subject. A court will depart from that process only when the party seeking relief shows that unusual circumstances require the court to take action now, before the exchange of briefs can be completed.

The court denied that request by Cohen but did set a briefing schedule, and a fairly tight one at that. Cohen can still ask for a gag order. Avenatti will have a chance to respond, and there could be a decision within a few weeks.