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Posted on January 16, 2009 10:33
Patrick J. Kenny
Everyone hopes to have some ability to influence their expert witnesses. Some attorneys try to control their experts by engaging in the risky approach of only providing them limited information. Others exert more subtle influence through their assistance in the preparation of their expert's report. Of course, most expert witnesses are professionals in their own right and are not subject to a great deal of influence. That is just as well given the very real possibility that any influence exerted by counsel over an expert will be discovered by and put to effective use by the other side. Where counsel loses sight of those risks, and an expert is too willing to please, disaster can ensue – as plaintiffs' counsel learned in Manez v. Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC, 533 F.3d 578 (7th Cir. 2008).
The plaintiffs in Manez were the family of a Mexican citizen who was killed in Veracruz, Mexico after a tire installed on his Ford Explorer exploded. Id. at 582. Originally the district court had granted a motion to dismiss under the doctrine of forum non conveniens on the ground that a forum in Mexico would be available and more appropriate for the litigation. The plaintiffs appealed that ruling. On appeal the plaintiffs submitted documents indicating that they had filed suit in a Mexican court and that the case had been dismissed on the grounds that the court "did not have jurisdiction over the case." Id. They argued to the United States Circuit Court for the Seventh Circuit that the dismissal of the lawsuit in Mexico demonstrated conclusively that the courts in Mexico were not available to hear the case and thus the dismissal for forum non conveniens was improper. The defendants, however, raised serious questions regarding the documents related to the lawsuit in Mexico. The appellate court therefore remanded the case to the district court for further consideration.
Upon remand the district court held an evidentiary hearing. Ultimately that court concluded that the dismissal in Mexico "had indeed been procured in bad faith and thus was not subject to recognition." Id. at 582. It therefore reaffirmed its earlier dismissal on the ground of forum non conveniens. The defendants then moved for sanctions against the plaintiffs' U.S. and Mexican lawyers.
As it turns out, the plaintiffs originally had hired a Mexican attorney, Dr. Pereznieto, to serve as an expert witness with respect to questions of Mexican law in the case. After the district court in the United States had dismissed the plaintiffs' case the first time based on forum non conveniens, and while that dismissal was on appeal, the plaintiffs also hired Dr. Pereznieto in a second capacity – to file the Mexican lawsuit and "insure that the judge would 'throw out the suit according to what we planned.'" Id. at 584-85. Dr. Pereznieto accomplished that task. Id. at 584. Meanwhile, Dr. Pereznieto submitted an "expert affidavit" to the Seventh Circuit in support of the plaintiffs' arguments seeking to overturn the first forum non conveniens ruling. That affidavit did not reveal that Dr. Pereznieto was representing the plaintiffs in their Mexican lawsuit, much less that he had been hired with the goal of making sure the Mexican lawsuit was thrown out.
After the Seventh Circuit remanded the case to the district court for further consideration of the first forum non conveniens ruling, approximately a year of discovery ensued during which the above facts were revealed. Unsurprisingly, once it became aware of the above facts, the district court was very receptive to the defendants' motion for sanctions.
The district court sanctioned the plaintiffs' U.S. attorneys $50,000 and ordered that those funds be divided among the defendants in any way that they thought was appropriate. Id. at 582.
In addition, the district court sanctioned Dr. Pereznieto personally in the amount of $100,000, half of which was payable to the defendants and the other half which was payable to the clerk of the court. The district court also barred Dr. Pereznieto from providing any testimony against any defendant in the case in any U.S. court until the monetary sanction was paid in full. The court also held that for purposes of resolving any "remaining cases in this multidistrict litigation, any and all sworn assertions reflecting the views or opinions of Leonel Pereznieto, whether made by him directly or indirectly, shall be stricken and we shall not consider as authority cases where his testimony whether oral or written was relied upon as justification for the court's opinion." Id. at 583.
In the end, the appellate court reversed the sanction against Dr. Pereznieto (albeit without prejudice), due in part to deficiencies with respect to the notice he had been given before the sanctions were imposed. Nevertheless, after reading the sordid facts that led to the sanctions one wonders if the plaintiffs' U.S. attorneys would not have preferred an expert who was a little more difficult to work with. Indeed, although Dr. Pereznieto eventually might be able to avoid some of the sanctions imposed on him personally, the plaintiffs' U.S. attorneys had no such luck – and did not appeal from the $50,000 sanction imposed on them.
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Got under there on Friday and cleaned it up with some brake fluid. Leak was the seal between the transmission and transfer case. Took it back to the mechanic that did a bunch of transmission work on it over the last couple weeks to have him fix it.
Going to have him figure out why it won't go in to 4wd too. The light on the dash just blinks. Hopefully this will be the last of the kinks to work out of the truck for a while. Mechanic has had the truck longer than I have since I bought it at the beginning of November.
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Mechanic replaced the seal. No more leak.
Turned out the problem with the 4x4 is that the electrical connection was not seated correctly. Once the plug was connected fully, it works great.
01-07-2012, 10:54 PM #4Where exactly was the leak? I have a leak somewhere around the Transfer case but some guy on another forum said it could be the transmission is toast and the vent was pushing the fluid out. I need as much information as you can share. Thanks.
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You may be experiencing pump rub. Check your transfer case housing for pin hole leaks. Clean it off and make sure your fluid is at the correct level. There is a known defect with theses cases where a pump inside wears through and produces a pin hole in the housing. Google "pump rub" and you will find loads of information on this issue. I hope this isn't your problem because you would need a new case half, but I would at least check for this.
01-09-2012, 08:25 AM #6I think that you may be on the money regarding the pump rum in the TC as far as the sound goes. I still haven&t cracked the case as yet because my back is out. I was thinking that the chain may have been slack in the TC but from what I just Googled, pump rub sounds like the problem. I get a ticking sound when driving at lower speeds without much load on the box. Has anyone else had this problem?
I would seem as though the fluid dump I did the other night is a tranny issue. I spoke to a friend today and he seems to think that the filter is blocked and the torque converter may be bad. I have had really bad fuel economy and I read somewhere that if the torque converter is no good, it will make the truck a real gas guzzler. I was getting less than 7mpg city and highway, so I am thinking to overhaul the complete system.
01-09-2012, 02:10 PM #7I can understand why a bad converter would equal bad fuel economy. The converter basically takes the engine power and turns it into forward (or rearward) movement. If it's not running as efficiently as possible, it is wasting gas. Just verify it with any other telltale symptoms first, since low mileage could point towards a million things.
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A native of San Antonio, Mrs. Hamon is remembered as a woman with a Texas-sized personality. She appeared in several Hollywood movies in the 1940s before marrying legendary oil wildcatter Jake Hamon in 1949. She provided multimillion-dollar support to SMU, including the Hamon Arts Library and Hamon Galleries in the Meadows Museum, and several Dallas medical and arts organizations. Her honors include an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from SMU in 2000 and the prestigious Linz Award for her humanitarian and civic efforts.
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The Defenestrations of Prague (Czech: Pražská defenestrace, German: Prager Fenstersturz) were two incidents in the history of Bohemia; there have been more, see below. The first occurred in 1419 and the second in 1618, although the term "Defenestration of Prague" more commonly refers to the later incident. Both helped to trigger prolonged conflict within Bohemia and beyond. Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
First Defenestration of Prague[edit]
The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of seven members of the city council by a crowd of radical Czech Hussites on 30 July 1419.
Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall, (Novoměstská radnice) on Charles Square. The town council members had refused to exchange their Hussite prisoners.[clarification needed] While they were marching, a stone was thrown at Želivský from the window of the town hall.[1] This enraged the mob and they stormed the town hall. Once inside the hall, the group threw the judge, the burgomaster, and some thirteen members of the town council out of the window and into the street, where they were killed by the fall or dispatched by the mob.[1]
King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, upon hearing this news, was stunned and died shortly after, supposedly due to the shock.[1]
The procession was a result of the growing discontent at the contemporary direction of the Church and the inequality between the peasants and the Church's prelates, and the nobility. This discontentment combined with rising feelings of nationalism and increased the influence of radical preachers such as Jan Želivský, influenced by Wycliffe, who saw the current state of the Catholic Church as corrupt. These preachers urged their congregations to action, including taking up arms, to combat these perceived transgressions.
The First Defenestration was thus the turning point between talk and action leading to the prolonged Hussite Wars. The wars broke out shortly afterward and lasted until 1436.
Second Defenestration of Prague[edit]
The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitated the Thirty Years' War.
In 1555, the Peace of Augsburg had settled religious disputes in the Holy Roman Empire by enshrining the principle of Cuius regio, eius religio, allowing a prince to determine the religion of his subjects. The Kingdom of Bohemia since 1526 had been governed by Habsburg Kings, who did not, however, force their Catholic religion on their largely Protestant subjects. In 1609, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia (1576–1612), increased Protestant rights. He was increasingly viewed as unfit to govern, and other members of the Habsburg dynasty declared his younger brother, Matthias, to be family head in 1606. Matthias began to gradually wrest territory from Rudolf, beginning with Hungary. In order to strengthen his hold on Bohemia, Rudolf in 1609 issued the Letter of Majesty, which granted Bohemia's largely Protestant estates the right to freely exercise their religion, essentially setting up a Protestant Bohemian state church controlled by the estates, "dominated by the towns and rural nobility".[2] Upon Rudolf's death, Matthias succeeded in the rule of Bohemia (1612–1619) and extended his offer of more legal and religious concessions to Bohemia, relying mostly on the advice of his chancellor, Bishop Melchior Klesl.
Conflict was precipitated by two factors: Matthias, already aging and without children, made his cousin Ferdinand of Styria his heir and had him elected king in 1617. Ferdinand was a proponent of the Catholic Counter-Reformation and not likely to be well-disposed to Protestantism or Bohemian freedoms. Bohemian Protestants opposed the royal government as they interpreted Letter of Majesty to extend not only to the land controlled by the nobility or self-governing towns but also to the King's own lands. Whereas Matthias and Khlesl were prepared to appease these demands, Ferdinand was not, and in 1618 forced the Emperor to order the cessation of construction of some Protestant chapels on royal land. When the Bohemian estates protested against this order, Ferdinand had their assembly dissolved.
The Defenestration[edit]
On May 23, 1618, four Catholic Lords Regent, namely Count Jaroslav Borzita z Martinic, Count Vilem Slavata of Chlum, Adam II von Sternberg (who was the supreme burgrave), and Matthew Leopold Popel Lobcowitz (who was the grand prior), arrived at the Bohemian Chancellory at 8:30am. After preparing the meeting hall, members of the dissolved assembly of the three main Protestant estates gathered at 9:00am, led by Count Thurn, who had been deprived of his post as Castellan of Karlstadt by the Emperor. The Protestant Lords' agenda was to clarify whether or not the four regents present were responsible for persuading King Matthias to order the cessation of churches on royal land. According to Martiniz himself:
Lord Paul Rziczan read aloud... a letter with the following approximate content: His Imperial Majesty had sent to their graces the lord regents a sharp letter that was, by our request, issued to us as a copy after the original had been read aloud, and in which His Majesty declared all of our lives and honour already forfeit, thereby greatly frightening all three Protestant estates. As they also absolutely intended to proceed with the execution against us, we came to a unanimous agreement among ourselves that, regardless of any loss of life and limb, honour and property, we would stand firm, with all for one and one for all... nor would we be subservient, but rather we would loyally help and protect each other to the utmost, against all difficulties. Because, however, it is clear that such a letter came about through the advice of some of our religious enemies, we wish to know, and hereby ask the lord regents present, if all or some of them knew of the letter, recommended it, and approved of it.[3]
Before the regents gave any answer, they requested that the Protestants give them the opportunity to confer with their superior, Adam von Waldstein, who was not present. If they were given the opportunity, the Protestants would get an official answer to their grievance by the next Friday (seeing as this was all taking place on the eve of Ascension Day and they all must observe the holy day). The Protestants demanded an immediate answer. The first two, Adam von Sternberg and Matthew Leopold Popel Lobcowitz, were decided innocent by the Protestant Estate holders and too pious to have any responsibility in the letter's creation. They in turn were removed from the room; however, before leaving, the supreme burgrave (Adam II von Sternberg) made it clear that they "did not advise anything that was contrary to the Letter of Majesty". This left only Count Vilem Slavata of Chlum, Count Jaroslav Borzita of Martinice (who had replaced Thurn as Castellan), known Catholic hard-liners, and Philip Fabricius the secretary to the Regents. They eventually claimed responsibility for the letter and, assuming they were only going to be arrested, welcomed any punishment the Protestants had planned.
The Lord Count von Thurn turned to both Martiniz and Slavata and said "you are enemies of us and of our religion, have desired to deprive us of our Letter of Majesty, have horribly plagued your Protestant subjects... and have tried to force them to adopt your religion against their wills or have had them expelled for this reason". Then to the crowd of Protestants, he continued "were we to keep these men alive, then we would lose the Letter of Majesty and our religion... for there can be no justice to be gained from or by them". Soon after, the Regents were thrown out of the third floor window along with the Regents' secretary, Philipus Fabricius, but survived after falling 70 feet (21 metres).[4][5] Catholics maintain the men were saved by angels, who caught them; Protestants believe they fell into a heap of horse manure. Philip Fabricius was later ennobled by the emperor and granted the title Baron von Hohenfall (literally "Baron of Highfall").[6]
Later Protestant pamphleteers asserted that they survived due to falling onto a dung heap, a story unknown to contemporaries and probably coined in response to the Imperial officials attributing their survival to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
Immediately after the Defenestration, the Protestant estates and Catholic Habsburgs started gathering allies for war.[7] After the death of Matthias in 1619, Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor. At the same time, the Bohemian estates deposed him as King of Bohemia and replaced him with Frederick V, Elector Palatine, a leading Calvinist and son-in-law of James I, King of England.
Because they deposed a properly chosen king, the Protestants could not gather the international support they needed for war.[8] Just two years after the Defenestration, Ferdinand and the Catholics regained power in the Battle of White Mountain on November 8, 1620. This became known as the first battle in the Thirty Years' War.[9]
There was plundering and pillaging in Prague for weeks following the Battle. Several months later, twenty-seven nobles and citizens were tortured and executed in the Old Town Square. Twelve of their heads were impaled on iron hooks and hung from the Bridge Tower as a warning. This also contributed to catalyzing the Thirty Years' War.[10]
Further defenestrations[edit]
More events of defenestration have occurred in Prague during its history, but they are not usually called defenestrations of Prague.
A defenestration (chronologically the second defenestration of Prague, sometimes called one-and-halfth defenestration) happened on 24 September 1483, when a violent overthrow of the municipal governments of the Old and New Towns ended with throwing the Old-Town portreeve and the bodies of seven killed aldermen out of the windows of the respective town halls.
Sometimes, the name the third defenestration of Prague is used, although it has no standard meaning. For example, it has been used[11] to describe the death of Jan Masaryk, who was found below the bathroom window of the building of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10 March 1948. The official report listed the death as a suicide.[12] However, it was widely believed he was murdered, either by the nascent Communist government in which he served as Foreign Minister, or by the Soviet secret services.[13] A Prague police report in 2004 concluded after forensic research that Masaryk had indeed been thrown out the window to his death.[14] This report was seemingly corroborated in 2006 when a Russian journalist claimed that his mother knew the Russian intelligence officer who threw Masaryk out the window.[15]
- ^ a b c Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ Wallace, Peter (2004). The Long European Reformation. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 155.
- ^ Helfferich, Tryntje (2009). The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. p. 16.
- ^ Beaulac, S. (2000). "The Westphalian Legal Orthodoxy - Myth or Reality?". Journal of the History of International Law 2 (2): 148–77. doi:10.1163/15718050020956812.
- ^ MacKay, John P; Hill, Bennett D; Buckler, John (1995). A history of Western society: from the Renaissance to 1815, Volume 2. Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 978-0-395-70845-3
- ^ Vehse, Eduard, translated by Franz KF Demmier (1896). Memoirs of the court and aristocracy of Austria, Volume 1, p. 243. HS Nichols
- ^ Gutmann, Myron P. "The Origins of the Thirty Years War." Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 18.4 (1988): 764-765. Web. 26 Jan. 2014. <http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/204823?uid=3739464&uid=2134&uid=2478569043&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3737720&uid=3&uid=2478569033&uid=60&purchase-type=both&accessType=none&sid=21103401380353&showMyJstorPss=false&seq=16&showAccess=false>.
- ^ Gutmann, Myron P. "The Origins of the Thirty Years War." Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 18.4 (1988): 764-765. Web. 26 Jan. 2014. <http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/204823?uid=3739464&uid=2134&uid=2478569043&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3737720&uid=3&uid=2478569033&uid=60&purchase-type=both&accessType=none&sid=21103401380353&showMyJstorPss=false&seq=16&showAccess=false>.
- ^ Gould, Stephen Jay. "The Diet of Worms and the Defenestrations of Prague." This View of Life. (1996): 24. Web. 26 Jan. 2014. <http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/BioNB427/READINGS/Gould1996.pdf>.
- ^ Gould, Stephen Jay. "The Diet of Worms and the Defenestrations of Prague." This View of Life. (1996): 24. Web. 26 Jan. 2014. <http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/BioNB427/READINGS/Gould1996.pdf>
- ^ Johnston, Ian. "Some Introductory Historical Observations" (lecture transcript)
- ^ Horáková, Pavla (11-03-2002). "Jan Masaryk died 54 years ago". Radio Prague. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
- ^ Richter, Jan (10-03-2008). "Sixty years on, the mystery of Jan Masaryk's tragic death remains unresolved". Radio Prague. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
- ^ Cameron, Rob, "Police close case on 1948 death of Jan Masaryk - murder, not suicide", Radio Prague, 06-01-2004.
- ^ Cameron, Rob, "Masaryk murder mystery back in headlines as Russian journalist speaks out", Radio Prague, 18-12-2006.
An English translation of part of Slavata's report of the incident is printed in Henry Frederick Schwarz, The Imperial Privy Council in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1943, issued as volume LIII of Harvard Historical Studies), pp. 344–347.


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They are exactly as numerous as previously decoded into length of literals. It's possible that there are zero literal.
Following the literals is the offset. This is a 2 bytes value, between 0 and 65535. It represents the position of the match to be copied from. Note that 0 is an invalid value, never used. 1 means "current position - 1 byte". 65536 cannot be coded, so the maximum offset value is really 65535. The value is stored using "little endian" format.
Then we need to extract the matchlength. For this, we use the second token field, a 4-bits value, from 0 to 15. There is an baselength to apply, which is the minimum length of a match, called minmatch. This minimum is 4. As a consequence, a value of 0 means a match length of 4 bytes, and a value of 15 means a match length of 19+ bytes.
Similar to literal length, on reaching the highest possible value (15), we output additional bytes, one at a time, with values ranging from 0 to 255. They are added to total to provide the final matchlength. A 255 value means there is another byte to read and add. There is no limit to the number of optional bytes that can be output this way (This points towards a maximum achievable compression ratio of ~250).
With the offset and the matchlength, the decoder can now proceed to copy the repetitive data from the already decoded buffer. Note that it is necessary to pay attention to overlapped copy, when matchlength > offset (typically when there are numerous consecutive zeroes).
By decoding the matchlength, we reach the end of the sequence, and start another one.
Graphically, the sequence looks like this :
Note that the last sequence stops right after literals field.
There are specific parsing rules to respect to be compatible with the reference decoder :
1) The last 5 bytes are always literals
2) The last match cannot start within the last 12 bytes
Consequently, a file with less then 13 bytes can only be represented as literals
These rules are in place to benefit speed and ensure buffer limits are never crossed.
Regarding the way LZ4 searches and finds matches, note that there is no restriction on the method used. It could be a full search, using advanced structures such as MMC, BST or standard hash chains, a fast scan, a 2D hash table, well whatever. Advanced parsing can also be achieved while respecting full format compatibility (typically achieved by LZ4-HC).
The "fast" version of LZ4 hosted on Google Code uses a fast scan strategy, which is a single-cell wide hash table. Each position in the input data block gets "hashed", using the first 4 bytes (minmatch). Then the position is stored at the hashed position.
The size of the hash table can be modified while respecting full format compatibility. For restricted memory systems, this is an important feature, since the hash size can be reduced to 12 bits, or even 10 bits (1024 positions, needing only 4K). Obviously, the smaller the table, the more collisions (false positive) we get, reducing compression effectiveness. But it nonetheless still works, and remain fully compatible with more complex and memory-hungry versions. The decoder do not care of the method used to find matches, and requires no additional memory.
PS : the format above describes the content of an LZ4 compressed block. But a file, or a stream, of arbitrary size, may consist of several blocks. Combining several blocks together is the scope of another layer, with its own format, described in the specification document : LZ4 Streaming format.


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