Thanks Laurie for your dilligence and persistence..

I bet Judge Faulkner is not saying much to anybody about what is transpiring, even his case manager, because of the sensitivity of the mediation.

Your point, however, did Judge Faulkner know of this requirement? I know all on this board would like to be a fly on the wall with the discussion between the case manager and Judge Faulkner to determine if an electronic report was required and sent. Possibly we will see the answer to this tomorrow.It is too bad that you did not have his email address and you could forward excerpts that you found.

This case easily took up the 2 days to discuss even with prior review and it is highly probable that a lot of additional time would be required, especially if J3 insisted on decision concerning Higgins et al. and with 3 seperate decisions to be made. Having no legal background, I hope others could look at problems in this ruling by Judge Ward if he denies  or overturns Higgins. Would this be grounds for appeal? Worse of course, if he over turned a previous Judge's decision. What impact would this have if any on the case? 

You would think this would cause Judge Ward to spend a significant amount of time reviewing all materials prior to making a judgement to make absolutely sure the correct decision was made. From reading posts months ago, knowledgeable people were saying this was/is a slam dunk and that J3 was grasping at straws. We will see (ronran expression). I am praying that this is a slam dunk and I hope Judge Ward would put the slam dunk on J3 quickly.