• Most Recent
• Highest Rated
• Hot Comments

Southern District of Florida Blog (10 unread)

• 11th Circuit

  Number of comments: 3
  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 [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• How pro-business is this Supreme Court

  Number of comments: 1
  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 [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Cuban spy to give up citizenship and remain in Cuba

  Number of comments: 0
  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, [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Circuit Court applicants

  Number of comments: 10
  The blog generally doesn't cover state court appointments (that's Rumpole's domain), but that latest Circuit Court seat has some interesting applicants from the federal family.  The Governor will decide from the following five, three of which have federal court ties:
  
  Jason Bloch
  Donald J. Cannava
  Wendell M. Graham
  Ayana' [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Above the Law ranks law schools

  Number of comments: 0
  It's a very interesting read and analysis:
  
  

  The basic premise underlying the ATL approach to ranking schools: the economics of the legal job market are so out of balance that it is proper to consider some legal jobs as more equal than others. In other words, a position [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Tuesday News & Notes

  Number of comments: 1
  1.  Justice Breyer has been released from the hospital following shoulder surgery after his biking accident. (via AP)
  
  2. Justice O'Connor regrets Bush v. Gore:
  
  “It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue,” Justice O’Connor told' [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Maybe it's time to stop riding the bike

  Number of comments: 1
  Justice Breyer had a horrible biking accident this weekend, requiring reconstructive shoulder surgery.  It was his third bad biking accident.  From CNN:
  
  In 1993, he had a nasty accident when a car stuck him in Harvard Square while he was on his two-wheeler. He suffered a punctured [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Friday news and notes

  Number of comments: 4
  1.  Judge Ryskamp sentenced an elderly woman to "5 seconds of probation"; she was charged with tax evasion in the Swiss bank crackdown where she inherited $43 million.  She was represented by Roy Black and Jackie Perczek.  Via the Palm Beach Post:
  

  
  A 79-year-old Palm Beach woman on [...]

  Share  |  Rate

• Where in the world is the Federal JNC?

  Number of comments: 8
  Apparently the Florida Federal JNC has not been constituted yet, leaving Judge Seitz's opening just sitting there -- with no ability to even apply. 
  
  Meantime, Judge William Thomas' nomination to the District bench hasn't moved forward yet. 
  
  What's going on? [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Don't rush to judgment

  Number of comments: 2
  See, e.g., the Ricin case.  From the NY Times:
  

  
  Criminal charges were dropped Tuesday against a Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Obama and two other officials
  One day after the F.B.I. said it could find no evidence that [...]

  Share  |  Rate