National Presto Industries, Inc. v. United States

This unfortunate tangle over the setting of the trial-period in a sizeable renegotiation case comes to us on plaintiffs request for interlocutory review of the trial judge’s order of January 15, 1981, setting the trial for June 2, 1981, and his order of February 25, 1981, denying reconsideration of that time.1 Plaintiffs’ counsel (who has been plaintiffs’ lead counsel since the case began in 1976) has another major trial commitment at that time and he states that he will be unable properly to represent plaintiffs unless the trial is postponed to September 1, 1981, and that obtaining new…