99 F. Supp. 2d 1042 - Steele v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The Court does not believe that this activity resulted in a conflict of interest. Starr’s work was on the purely constitutional question of whether a sitting president could be sued in a civil suit. Mr. Starr is a former federal circuit judge as well as a former Solicitor General of the United States. He has a noted reputation for knowledge in the area of constitutional law, and it certainly should come as no surprise that he might be consulted by one party or the other on an important constitutional issue such as this one. Additionally, when Starr was appointed Independent Counsel, he ceased work on the brief. Id. For those reasons, the Court rejects Steele’s allegation that this work led Starr to choose a side, eventually leading him to seek an improper indictment against Steele for perjury.”

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   e.g. 269 F. Supp. 2d 1024 - Tucker v. United States