1) Delaware Gun Case (Maryellen Noreika)
September 14: Indictment
October 3: Arraignment
October 8: Discovery request
October 12: First Discovery Production (350 pages focused on gun case), including iCloud data and “a copy of data from the defendant’s laptop”
October 13: Motion to Continue
October 19: Order resetting deadlines
November 1: Second Discovery Production (700,000 pages on tax charges — no mention of FARA investigations)
November 15: Hunter subpoena request; Second discovery request; Brady letter
December 4: Weiss subpoena response
December 11: Motions due
- Selective and vindictive
- Immunity from Diversion
- Diversion agreement
- Chris Clark declaration
- May 11: Weinsheimer to Clark
- May 15: Wolf to Clark
- May 18: McCarten to Wolf
- May 19: Clark to Wolf
- May 19: McCarten to Wolf
- May 30: Clark to Wolf
- June 2: Clark to Wolf
- June 5: Wolf to Clark
- June 6: Clark to Wolf
- June 7: Wolf to Clark
- June 8: Wolf to Clark
- June 8: Hanson to Norieka
- June 9: Buckson to Clark
- June 19: Clark to Hanson
- June 19: Clark to Hanson
- June 19: Hanson to Clark (add Wise)
- July 19: Bray to Wise
- July 20: Wallace to Buckson
- Constitutional
- Special Counsel Appointment
- Discovery
December 12: Hunter subpoena reply
January 9: Third Discovery Production (500,000 pages focused on tax case)
January 16: Responses due
- Selective and Vindictive
- Immunity from Diversion
- Constitutional
- Special Counsel Appointment
- Discovery
January 29: emptywheel liberates warrants
- August 29, 2019: Original iCloud warrant; warrant return
- December 13, 2019: Original laptop warrant; warrant return
- July 10, 2020 iCloud warrant; warrant return
- December 4, 2023: post-indictment warrant; warrant. return (less attachments) attachments AB
January 30: Replies due
- Reply, Selective Prosecution
- Reply, Diversion Agreement
- Reply, 2A Constitional
- Reply, SCO Appointment
- Reply, Discovery
January 30: Motion to compel
February 13: Response motion to compel with Sawdust exhibit
February 20: Reply motion to compel
March 7: Benjamin Wallace withdrawal
March 11: Notice of Supplemental Authority (3rd Circuit Cruz); Notice of Supplemental Authority (Brady Transcript)
March 13: Status conference
April 12: opinions denying motions to dismiss
April 17:
- Notice of appeal
- Weiss motion to set pretrial schedule and order
- Biden status report
- Weiss response status report
- Reply status report
April 19: Opposition to motion to stay
April 22:
- Biden responds that they never asked for a stay
- Weiss moves to set pretrial schedule
May 9:
- Third Circuit denies interlocutory appeal
- Scheduling order sets trial for June 3
May 14: Weiss motions in limine
- Prohibiting Hunter from arguing that prosecutors have to prove he used drugs on the day of the gun purchase (no position from Hunter noted)
- Admitting misleading portions of Hunter’s book
- Finding electronic evidence (including both the iCloud data and the laptop) self-authenticating
- Prohibiting mention of declination decision in Delaware
- Excluding defects in prosecution
- Excluding evidence about later sobriety
- Excluding claim gun charges unconstitutional
- Excluding discussion of plea negotiations
May 14: Motion to enjoin David Weiss
May 17:
- Motion to seal regarding witness
- Weiss Jury Instructions
- Weiss Voir Dire
May 20:
- Notice of Interlocutory Appeal 2A
- Motions in Limine:
- Subpoenas:
- Response MILs:
- Jury instructions
May 20: Weiss filings
1a) Third Circuit Interlocutory Appeal
April 17: Jurisdictional order
April 19: Weiss motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction
April 29: Weiss jurisdictional; Hunter jurisdictional
May 9: Dismissed for lack of appellate jurisdiction
May 20: Petition for rehearing and stay
2) Los Angeles Tax Case (Mark Scarsi)
Hunter was indicted on December 7 and made a combined arraignment/first appearance on January 11. At that hearing, Judge Mark Scarsi set an aggressive (and, from the sounds of things, strict) schedule as follows:
February 20, 2024: Motions to dismiss
- Immunity because of diversion
- SCO appointment
- Selective prosecution
- Due process violations (IRS)
- Untimely
- Duplicity
- Specific selective (2019)
- Venue
- Surplussage
February 28: Scarsi order on Surplussage
March 11: Response due
- Opposition immunity
- Opposition SCO
- Opposition Selective and Vindictive
- 2021 Tolling Agreement
- 2022 Tolling Agreement
- 230807 Chris Clark Reply
- Opposition untimely
- Opposition duplicitous
- Opposition selective 2019
- Opposition venue
- Opposition IRS agents
March 18: Replies due
- Reply immunity from diversion
- Reply SCO
- Reply selective prosecution
- Reply IRS misconduct
- Reply SOL
- Reply duplicitous
- Reply 2019 selective
- Reply venue
March 20:
- Additional exhibits:
- August 9: Withdraw plea
- August 11: Request for weekend
- August 11: Motion to vacate
March 25: Sur-reply
March 27 at 1:00 p.m.: Pretrial motion hearing
April 1: Lowell motion to file, supplemental filing, and declaration
April 1: Order denying motions to dismiss
April 8: Order denying leave to file additional filings
April 12: Notice of interlocutory appeal
April 17: Initial deadline for orders resolving pretrial motions.
May 29 at 1:00 p.m.: Status conference
June 20: Trial
2a) Ninth Circuit Interlocutory Appeal
July 5: Opening brief
August 5: Answering brief
3) House Dick Pic Sniffing (James Comer and Jim Jordan)
November 8: James Comer sends a pre-impeachment vote subpoena
November 28: Lowell accepts Comer’s offer for Hunter to testify publicly
December 6: Comer and Jordan threaten contempt
December 13: Pre-impeachment deposition scheduled; Hunter gives a press conference and states his data has been “stolen” from him
December 13: Impeachment vote authorizing subpoena
January 10: Oversight and Judiciary refer Hunter for contempt
January 12: Lowell invites Comer and Jordan to send another subpoena, now that they have the authority to enforce it
January 14: Jordan and Comer take Lowell up on his invitation
February 28: Deposition
4) IRS Lawsuit (Rudolph Contreras)
September 18: Privacy Act lawsuit
November 13: DOJ asks for extension to January 16
January 16: DOJ files motion for partial dismissal
January 23: Joint motion to continue
January 30: Original deadline for Hunter response
February 5: Amended complaint
February 9: DOJ asks for delay for response from February 20 to February 27
February 27: Motion for partial dismissal of amended complaint
March 4: Requested extension to April 12
April 11: Random reassignment to Rudolph Contreras
April 12: Opposition MTD
- April 4, 2024: Empower to Garland
5) John Paul Mac Isaac’s Suit and Hunter’s Countersuit (Robert Robinson)
Last summer, John Paul Mac Isaac and Hunter both sat for depositions, on May 31 and June 29, respectively.
Last fall, Hunter Biden subpoenaed people like Rudy Giuliani, Robert Costello, Steve Bannon, Yaacov Apelbaum (who made a copy of the contents of the laptop), Tore Maras (who has described adding things to the laptop). In November, Hunter also served a subpoena on Apple.
On January 4, the parties to John Paul Mac Isaac’s suit and countersuit filed to have their pending motions decided by a judge. The media defendants — CNN and Politico — are filing to dismiss. Hunter and JPMI filed competing motions for summary judgment.
And Hunter is filing to quash a bunch of subpoenas, initially 14, to Hunter’s parents, uncle, ex-wife, former business partners, and several people with his father, like Ron Klain and Mike Morell. Though after that, JPMI attempted to subpoena Hunter’s daughters.
Since then, Judge Robinson stayed John Paul Mac Isaac’s subpoenas and scheduled hearings in the Motions to Dismiss (from CNN and Politico) and Motions for Summary Judgement (from Hunter and JPMI) for February 22.
6 AND 7) Hacking lawsuits against Garrett Ziegler (Hernan Vera)
[RECAP Ziegler docket; RECAP Rudy docket]
September 13: Complaint against Ziegler
September 26: Complaint against Rudy and Costello; noticing Ziegler suit as related case
November 15: Ziegler gets 30 day extension
December 1: Costello gets 30 day extension
December 7: After swapping attorneys, Ziegler gets extension to December 21
December 21: Ziegler motion to dismiss and request for judicial notice (heavily reliant on JPMI suit)
January 17: Costello motion to dismiss with Rudy declaration that makes no notice of his fruit and nuts payments relating to Hunter Biden
January 22: Lowell successfully requests to harmonize MTD hearing for both hacking lawsuits
February 8: Rescheduled date for hearing on motion to dismiss
February 22: Rescheduled date for hearing on motion to dismiss
End of February: Response to motions to dismiss due
March 21: Joined date for hearing on motion to dismiss
April 26: Order denying recusal motion
May 16: Motion to dismiss hearing
7) and Rudy Giuliani Robert Costello
Note, whether because of Rudy’s bankruptcy, or a persuasive argument on venue, Hunter and Robert Costello agreed that the suit against Costello will be refiled in SDNY, which has not yet happened.
8) Defamation against Patrick Byrne (Stephen Wilson)
November 8: Complaint
January 16: After swapping attorneys, Byrne asks for 30 day extension
February 6: Rescheduled response date
