SDNY Case Against 2020 Election Robocallers Is Reassigned to New Judge

The case against defendants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for their roles in initiating a threatening and intimidating robocall campaign designed to suppress Black citizens' mail-in votes in the run-up to the 2020 election was reassigned to U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff for Southern New York in Manhattan, said a text-only notice Tuesday (docket 1:20-cv-08668). Judge Victor Marrero is no longer assigned to the case, said the notice. Marrero’s 111-page order March 8 granted summary judgment against Wohl and Burkman for recruiting a Black voice actress to record the intimidating robocall that they then targeted toward voters in Black neighborhoods in Atlanta, Charlotte, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Richmond (see 2303090003). A five-day jury trial in the damages phase of the case against Wohl and Burkman is scheduled to open Jan. 29 (see 2309010052).