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Case FLMSD96-05397 - M. CURRY VS T. CURRY 

Viewed	Date	Action Text	Disposition	Image
	01/19/2011	COPIES	Not Applicable
	10/26/2005 3:30 PM DEPT. 09	HEARING ON F/L RECOMMENDATION CONFERENCE - Minutes	COMPLETED
	10/26/2005	STIPULATION FOR TEMPORARY JUDGE FILED	Not Applicable
	07/28/2005	DECLARATION OF PRIVATE CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATOR FILED RE: QUALIFICATIONS BY BARBARA BOWEN, L.C.S.W. ON 6/10/05	Not Applicable
	07/01/2005	DECLARATION OF BARBARA BOWEN, PRIVATE CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATOR FILED RE: QUALIFICATIONS	Not Applicable
	06/08/2005	CLERK`S CERTIFICATE OF MAILING OF ORDER APPOINTING CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATOR FILED SENT TO ALL PARTIES	Not Applicable
	06/08/2005	FINDINGS & ORDER AFTER 06/08/05 HEARING RE: CUSTODY/VISITATION & CUSTODY EVAL ORDER FILED.	Not Applicable
	06/08/2005	UPDATED CASE TO CHANGE ADDRESS OF PARTY THOMAS BENTON CURRY	Not Applicable
	06/08/2005	SPANIER, ALAN F. CHANGES ATTORNEY FOR THOMAS BENTON CURRY AND IS REPLACED BY PRO/PER	Not Applicable
	06/08/2005	UPDATED CASE TO CHANGE ADDRESS OF PARTY MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY	Not Applicable
	06/08/2005	MARCIA JENSEN LASSITER CHANGES ATTORNEY FOR MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY AND IS REPLACED BY PRO/PER	Not Applicable
	06/08/2005	ORDER APPOINTING CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATOR FILED	Not Applicable
	06/08/2005 8:30 AM DEPT. 09	HRG ON F/L MTN/OSC TO/FOR MOD OF CHILD CUSTODY ( MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY)(PRO PER) - Minutes	COMPLETED
	06/06/2005	PRF OF PERS SVC OF RESPONSIVE DEC TO OSC/NTC OF MO T TO MERRILEE CURRY ON 6/4/05 FILED	Not Applicable
	05/25/2005	RESPONSIVE DECLARATION OF THOMAS BENTON CURRY TO OSC OR NOTICE OF MOTION FIELD; HEARING SCHEDULED FOR 06/08/05 AT 08:30 IN 09	Not Applicable
	05/11/2005	PROOF OF PERSONAL SERVICE OF OSC, ETC ON THOMAS BENTON CURRY FILED. SERVED ON 05/05/05	Not Applicable
	04/27/2005	HEARING ON MOTION WAS SET FOR 6/08/05 AT 8:30 IN DEPT. 09
	04/27/2005	*DELETED*,HEARING ON MOTION WAS SET FOR 7/19/05 AT 8:30 IN DEPT. 07
	04/27/2005	OSC (CUSTODY AND/OR VISITATION RE: MOD OF CHILD CUSTODY FILED BY MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY	Not Applicable
	08/21/2000	STIPULATION FOR DIVISION OF PENSION BENEFITS & QDRO FILED	Not Applicable
	08/21/2000	STIPULATION FOR DIVISION OF PENSION BENEFITS & QDRO FILED	Not Applicable
	03/29/2000	NOTICE OF UNAVAILABILITY OF ATTORNEY MARCIA JENSEN LASSITER FOR MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY FOR PERIOD FR.4-18-00-5-12;8-21-00-8-28;12-18-00-12-29-00 FILED	Not Applicable
	11/30/1999	SUBSTITUTION OF ATTORNEY FILED. LASSITER, MARCIA JENSEN SUBSTITUTES OUT AS ATTORNEY FOR MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY AND IS REPLACED BY MARCIA JENSEN LASSITER	Not Applicable
	11/30/1999	SUBSTITUTION OF ATTY FILED - MARCIA LASSITER IS REPRESENTING MERRILEE CURRY	Not Applicable
	05/14/1999	NOTICE OF ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON/FOR C/C C/S FILED WITH PROOF OF MAILING	Not Applicable
	05/14/1999	NOTICE OF ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON/FOR SPOUSAL SUPT WAIVER FILED WITH PROOF OF MAILING	Not Applicable
	05/14/1999	NOTICE OF ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON/FOR DISSO FILED WITH PROOF OF MAILING	Not Applicable
	04/27/1999 8:30 AM DEPT. 30	F/L COURT TRIAL - LONG CAUSE/DURATION: 2 DAYS - Minutes	OFF-CALENDAR
	04/26/1999	FINAL JUDGMENT FOR DISSOLUTION FILED	Not Applicable
	04/26/1999	FINAL JUDGMENT FOR STIP JUDGMENT RE SP SUPPT WVR & PROPERTY DIVISION FILED	Not Applicable
	04/26/1999	FINAL JUDGMENT FOR STIP JUDGMENT ON CH CUST,COPRNTNG & CH SUPPT FILED	Not Applicable
	04/26/1999	INCOME & EXPENSE DECLARATION FILED BY MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY	Not Applicable
	04/26/1999	DECLARATION OF MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY RE: SERVICE OF FINAL DECLARATION OF DISCLOSURE FILED	Not Applicable
	04/26/1999 8:30 AM DEPT. 30	F/L COURT TRIAL - LONG CAUSE/DURATION: 2 DAYS - Minutes	COMPLETED
	04/15/1999	DECLARATION OF THOMAS BENTON CURRY RE: SERVICE OF FINAL DECLARATION OF DISCLOSURE FILED	Not Applicable
	04/15/1999	INCOME & EXPENSE DECLARATION FILED BY THOMAS BENTON CURRY	Not Applicable
	03/05/1999	UNREPORTED MINUTE ORDER FILED	Not Applicable
	03/04/1999	F/L COURT TRIAL WAS SET FOR 4/27/99 AT 8:30 IN DEPT 30
	03/04/1999	F/L COURT TRIAL WAS SET FOR 4/26/99 AT 8:30 IN DEPT 30
	03/04/1999 3:30 PM DEPT. 30	HEARING ON F/L SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE - Minutes	COMPLETED
	02/09/1999 2:00 PM DEPT. 30	HEARING ON F/L SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE - Minutes	CONTINUED
	12/16/1998 2:00 PM DEPT. 30	HEARING ON F/L SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE - Minutes	CONTINUED
	10/26/1998	NOTICE OF/TO APPEARANCE AND RESPONSE FILED ON BEHALF OF PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC RETIREMENT PLAN, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC SAVINGSFUND PLAN	Not Applicable
	10/20/1998	PRF OF SVC OF SUMMONS (JOINDER - PENSION PLAN) F.L. PETITION FILED 10/25/1996 OF MERRILEE CURRY BY MAIL W/NTC & ACKNOWL OF RECEIPT SIGNED BY PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC SAVINGSFUND PLAN ON 09/23/98 FILED	Not Applicable
	10/20/1998	PRF OF SVC OF SUMMONS (JOINDER - PENSION PLAN) F.L. PETITION FILED 10/25/1996 OF MERRILEE CURRY BY MAIL W/NTC & ACKNOWL OF RECEIPT SIGNED BY PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC RETIREMENT PLAN ON 09/23/98 FILED	Not Applicable
	10/20/1998	PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC RETIREMENT PLAN, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC SAVINGSFUND PLAN ADDED AS A PARTY	Not Applicable
	10/20/1998	SUMMONS (JOINDER) FILED	Not Applicable
	09/23/1998 1:30 PM DEPT. 30	HEARING ON F/L STATUS CONFERENCE CONFERENCE - Minutes	CONTINUED
	09/21/1998	F/L CONFERENCE WAS SET FOR 12/16/98 AT 14:00 IN DEPT. 30
	09/18/1998	F/L CONFERENCE WAS SET FOR 9/23/98 AT 13:30 IN DEPT. 30

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Case FLMSD96-05397 - M. CURRY VS T. CURRY 

Viewed	Date	Action Text	Disposition	Image
	09/18/1998	UPDATE F.L. PETITION FILED 10/25/1996 OF MERRILEE CURRY	Not Applicable
	09/01/1998	PLEADING ON JOINDER - EMPL PENS BENEFIT PLAN SUM MONS ISSUED
	09/01/1998	REQ FOR JOIN OF EMPL PENS BENEFIT PLAN & ORDER P GE RETIREMENT PLAN/SAVINGS FUND
	08/21/1998	STIP & ORDER FOR PRIVATE CH CUST EVAL
	06/16/1998 8:00 AM DEPT. 30	FAMILY LAW STATUS CONFERENCE
	06/16/1998 8:00 AM DEPT. 30	FAMILY LAW STATUS CONFERENCE 2ND CONTINUANCE - Minutes	COMPLETED
	03/10/1998 8:00 AM DEPT. 30	FAMILY LAW STATUS CONFERENCE 2ND CONTINUANCE
	03/10/1998 8:00 AM DEPT. 30	FAMILY LAW STATUS CONFERENCE - Minutes	COMPLETED
	12/17/1997 8:00 AM DEPT. 30	FAMILY LAW STATUS CONFERENCE
	12/15/1997 8:00 AM DEPT. 30	TELEPHONE STATUS CONFERENCE - Minutes	COMPLETED
	11/18/1997	NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE
	11/18/1997 8:00 AM DEPT. 30	TELEPHONE STATUS CONFERENCE
	11/13/1997	> AT-ISSUE MEMORANDUM OF PETNR-MERRILEE LA VONNE CURRY BY: MARCIA LASSITER; NJT; 4 HOURS
	10/21/1997	>> RESPONSE FILED AND REQUEST FOR DISSOLUTION
	11/14/1996	SUMMONS W/PRF OF MAILING W/NTC & ACK OF RECEIPTS IGNED ON 11-7-96
	10/25/1996	PETN FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE - SUMMONS ISSUE D

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By SCOTT SHANEAPRIL 8, 2015
  WASHINGTON — When Bruce E. Ivins, an Army microbiologist, took a fatal overdose of Tylenol in 2008, the government declared that he had been responsible for the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, which killed five people and set off a nationwide panic, and closed the case.
Now, a former senior F.B.I. agent who ran the anthrax investigation for four years says that the bureau gathered “a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence” regarding Dr. Ivins that remains secret. The former agent, Richard L. Lambert, who spent 24 years at the F.B.I., says he believes it is possible that Dr. Ivins was the anthrax mailer, but he does not think prosecutors could have convicted him had he lived to face criminal charges.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tennessee last Thursday, Mr. Lambert accused the bureau of trying “to railroad the prosecution of Ivins” and, after his suicide, creating “an elaborate perception management campaign” to bolster its claim that he was guilty. Mr. Lambert’s lawsuit accuses the bureau and the Justice Department of forcing his dismissal from a job as senior counterintelligence officer at the Energy Department’s lab in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in retaliation for his dissent on the anthrax case.
The anthrax letters were mailed to United States senators and news organizations in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, causing a huge and costly disruption in the postal system and the federal government. Members of Congress and Supreme Court justices were forced from their offices while technicians in biohazard suits cleaned up the lethal anthrax powder. Decontamination costs nationwide exceeded $1 billion. At least 17 people were sickened, in addition to the five who died.
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The bureau’s investigation, one of the longest-running and most technically complex inquiries in its history, has long been seen as troubled. Investigators initially lacked the forensic skills to analyze bioterrorist attacks. For several years, agents focused on a former Army scientist and physician, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, who was subsequently cleared and given a $4.6 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit. Reviews by the National Academy of Sciences and the Government Accountability Office faulted aspects of the F.B.I.’s scientific work on the case.
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The late Bruce Ivins in 2003, when he was a microbiologist at Fort Detrick, Md.CreditSam Yu/Frederick News Post, via Assocaited Press
Mr. Lambert, who was himself criticized for pursuing Dr. Hatfill for so long, has now offered, in his lawsuit and in an interview, an insider’s view of what hampered the investigation.
“This case was hailed at the time as the most important case in the history of the F.B.I.,” Mr. Lambert said. “But it was difficult for me to get experienced investigators assigned to it.”
He said that the effort was understaffed and plagued by turnover, and that 12 of 20 agents assigned to the case had no prior investigative experience. Senior bureau microbiologists were not made available, and two Ph.D. microbiologists who were put on the case were then removed for an 18-month Arabic language program in Israel. Fear of leaks led top officials to order the extreme compartmentalization of information, with investigators often unable to compare notes and share findings with colleagues, he said.
Mr. Lambert said he outlined the problems in a formal complaint in 2006 to the F.B.I.’s deputy director. Some of his accusations were later included in a report on the anthrax case by the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” infuriating bureau leaders.
The F.B.I., which rarely comments on pending litigation, did not respond to requests for comment on Mr. Lambert’s claims.
Although the lethal letters contained notes expressing jihadist views, investigators came to believe the mailer was an insider in the government’s biodefense labs. They eventually matched the anthrax powder to a flask in Dr. Ivins’s lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland and began intense scrutiny of his life and work.
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The police in Frederick, Md., spoke with a woman they identified as Diane Ivins, the wife of Bruce E. Ivins, 62, at the couple's home in Frederick, Md., in 2008. CreditRob Carr/Associated Press
They discovered electronic records that showed he had spent an unusual amount of time at night in his high-security lab in the periods before the two mailings of the anthrax letters. They found that he had a pattern of sending letters and packages from remote locations under assumed names. They uncovered emails in which he described serious mental problems.
The investigators documented Dr. Ivins’s obsession with a national sorority that had an office near the Princeton, N.J., mailbox where the letters were mailed. They detected what they believed to be coded messages directed at colleagues, hidden in the notes in the letters.
As prosecutors prepared to charge him with the five murders in July 2008, Dr. Ivins, 62, took his own life at home in Frederick, Md. Days later, at a news conference, Jeffrey A. Taylor, then the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, said the authorities believed “that based on the evidence we had collected, we could prove his guilt to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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But Mr. Lambert says the bureau also gathered a large amount of evidence pointing away from Dr. Ivins’s guilt that was never shared with the public or the news media. Had the case come to trial, he said, “I absolutely do not think they could have proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.” He declined to be specific, saying that most of the information was protected by the Privacy Act and was unlikely to become public unless Congress carried out its own inquiry.
After retiring from the F.B.I. in 2012, Mr. Lambert joined the Energy Department. But an F.B.I. ethics lawyer ruled that because Mr. Lambert had to work with F.B.I. agents in his new job, he was violating a conflict-of-interest law that forbade former federal employees from contacting previous colleagues for a year after they had left their government jobs.
That ruling led to his dismissal, Mr. Lambert said, and he has not been able to find work despite applying for more than 70 jobs. His lawsuit asserts that several other former F.B.I. agents were able to take identical intelligence jobs with the Energy Department and that he was singled out for mistreatment.

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