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• Friday morning news and notes

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  1.  The former Hialeah mayor and his wife have been indicted on tax evasion charges.  Via Jay Weaver:
  
  In 2010, while peeling back the layers of Hialeah’s “shadow banking’’ industry, federal prosecutors pressed the city’s mayor about allegations that he had collected exorbitant cash interest payments on more [...]
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• AUSA Mike Garofola's profile on ABC.com for the Bachelorette

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  Well, you all remember that local AUSA Mike Garofola is going to be appearing on the Bachelorette.  Now, his profile is on ABC.com.  Here's the picture:
  
  
  
  
  Below is the questionnaire that he filled out for the show, and here are the highlights posted [...]
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• Kosher Prisons

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  Curt Anderson is covering the kosher meal dispute in Florida jails.  Here's the latest twist and turn from the 11th Circuit:
  
  

  Despite Florida's recent change of policy, a federal appeals court Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit filed by a Jewish prison inmate who claimed his rights were violated by [...]

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• Tuesday News & Notes

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  1.  Which group is more diverse?  The U.S. Supreme Court or the lawyers who argue before it? 
  
  The Supreme Court by a long shot.  From the AP:
  
  

  In roughly 75 hours of arguments at the Supreme Court since October, only one African-American lawyer appeared before the justices, [...]

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• 11th Circuit conference criticized

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  Seems like every judicial conference is under attack these days.  From Jaime Dupree of the AJC:
  
  

  Even as automatic budget cuts force various federal agencies to cut spending, a group of federal judges from the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit went ahead with their 2013 Judicial Conference last week, spending [...]

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• Gen. William Suter

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  The Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the Federal Bar Association yesterday at the Hyatt.  It was a very entertaining speech.  Lots of good stories about the Court.
  
  But Suter was also substantive.  For example, he predicted that the exclusionary rule would be abolished in the near term.  [...]
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• U.S. Supreme Court Clerk William Suter to speak to the Federal Bar today

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  They call him "The General" and he'll be at the Hyatt at noon. 
  
  He's retiring at the end of this Term after 20 years at the High Court.
  
  Should be an entertaining talk.' [...]
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• 11th Circuit

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  The judges are back from the 11th Circuit conference, which was in Savannah, Georgia last week.
  
  Apparently the agenda included a re-enactment of a slavery trial that occurred in Savannah and also a speech by a Thomas Jefferson impersonator.
  
  
  
  Meantime, there are still two openings on [...]
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• How pro-business is this Supreme Court

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  Apparently, the most pro-business Supreme Court ever... From the NY Times:
  
  But the business docket reflects something truly distinctive about the court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. While the current court’s decisions, over all, are only slightly [...]
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• Cuban spy to give up citizenship and remain in Cuba

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  Curt Anderson has all of the details:
  
  

  One of the convicted spies known as the "Cuban Five" will be able to permanently remain in Cuba in exchange for renouncing his U.S. citizenship, a federal judge ruled Friday after U.S. officials dropped their initial opposition.
  Rene Gonzalez, 56, [...]

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