Mergentime Corp. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority

MEMORANDUM OPINION

THOMAS F. HOGAN, Chief Judge.

In Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, the first mate is the ironically named Star-buck, a star-crossed sailor who cannot “buck the stars” and avoid his fatal destiny. Just so this protracted litigation. This star-crossed case has been in the hands of two prior judges in this Court, who both died shortly after rendering opinions in this litigation. Indeed, due to no fault of any court or counsel, this litigation has begun to assume the dimensions of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, the protracted litigation in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. Charles Dickens, Bleak…