Obama's counsel is Perkins and Coie. Obama is named, but so are individuals such as Nancy Pelosi, Alvin T. Onaka, Ph.D., Loretta Fuddy and others. I'm pretty sure those individuals who are out of state are not being directly represented by the MDEC's lawyers. If they were, then they could get an actual hard copy of Obama's LFBC and not a copy of PDF posted on a website with a vague letter of verification that lists no birth facts on it.
Definitely not in this lawsuit (and not in any case that I can recall since 2008 or 2009, but I may be wrong on that.)
Obama is named, but so are individuals such as Nancy Pelosi, Alvin T. Onaka, Ph.D., Loretta Fuddy and others. I'm pretty sure those individuals who are out of state are not being directly represented by the MDEC's lawyers.
The MDEC's lawyers are also representing Obama. I'm not sure about the other federal defendants; many of them have not appeared in the Mississippi case because Orly hasn't managed to serve them. The Hawai'i officials have hired their own lawyers.
If they were, then they could get an actual hard copy of Obama's LFBC and not a copy of PDF posted on a website with a vague letter of verification that lists no birth facts on it.
The case hasn't gotten to discovery yet, so no one has been required to produce anything. The MDEC lawyers did offer a letter of verification from Hawai'i-- not of the Birth Certificate, which they claim is irrelevant (no statute says a presidential candidate has to produce a b.c.), but of the birth facts-- that Obama was born in Hawai'i in 1961.
Obama uses a different local law firm in each state ballot challenge. He is not represented by Perkins and Cole. Local lawyers know state eligibility requirements and state election law better than a national firm would.
You might remember that Alexandra Hill (Genova, Burn & Giantomasi) represented him against Mario Apuzzo in New Jersey and that the infamous Michael Jablonski (private practice attorney) represented Obama in Georgia against Orly Taitz in the “trial on the merits” of Farrar, Powell, Swennson and Welden v Obama. A local Atlanta attorney, Jablonsky refused to show up for the trial and was threatened with a default judgement against his client which the plaintiffs rejected.
Neither Hill nor Jablonsky work for Perkins-Cole nor do Tepper (Garfied & Tepper) and Begley (Begley Law Firm).