Strahan v. Holmes

ORDER

GORTON, District Judge.

In December, 2008, the Court presided over a bench trial to resolve a dispute between pro se plaintiff Richard Max Strahan (“Strahan”) and defendant Daniel Holmes (“Holmes”), a commercial lobster fisherman, with respect to the entanglement of a humpback whale. Strahan, who is now pursuing an appeal of this Court’s ruling in that case to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, has requested the trial transcript at government expense and an award of costs against the defendant. He has also re quested, at this belated hour, that the presiding…