William Spigarolo v. Larry R. Meachum, Commissioner of Corrections, State of Connecticut

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• relying on Craig in rejecting a Confrontation Clause challenge to the introduction of the videotaped testimony of child witnesses at a criminal trial, and stating that \Craig did not rest on the distinction between contemporaneous and videotaped testimony\
• citing, e.g., Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co., 308 U.S. 66, 76–77 23 (1939)
• “When children testify, the trial court may fashion an oath or affirmation that is meaningful to the witness.”
• “[T]he amount [of evidence] that must be produced in order 24 to create a prima facie case is ‘very little.’”
• “[I]n evaluating whether the 27 defendant’s articulated reason is pretextual, the trier of fact must, at a minimum, consider 28 the same evidence that the plaintiff introduced to establish her prima facie case.”
• “[w]here one or more persons have committed a fraud upon the 24 government in violation of the [False Claims Act], each is joint and severally liable for the 25 treble damages and statutory penalty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).