Judge’s 9/11 Remembrance Prompts Mistrial Move

A judge’s 9/11 remembrance prompted an attorney for BNP Paribas to quickly — and unsuccessfully — move for a mistrial Thursday. Gibson Dunn’s Barry Berke said the court agreed there would be no references to international terrorism or Osama Bin Laden in the trial over the bank’s alleged role in genocide in Sudan.

Manhattan federal judge Alvin K. Hellerstein began the day by talking about 9/11, saying his clerk emerged from the subway and saw “people fall to their deaths” as first responders rushed in. BNP had asked that the trial not begin on the anniversary, Berke said.

The lawsuit ...