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• Happy New Year!

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  I just wanted to wish everyone a happy and healthy new year and thank everyone for stopping by and reading, and for sending tips.
  
  The District changed quite a bit this year and will continue to undergo a transformation in 2013. Should be fun to watch -- and [...]
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• Best posts of 2012

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  Kyle Swenson of the New Times covers local blogs' best posts here, including SDFLA.
  
  I picked the posts about Judge Jordan's confirmation process.  The blog gets lots of traffic when there are posts about new judges and magistrates (thanks to all my tipsters, who get me this information' [...]
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• "[The] president’s most enduring legacy."

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  That's what Federal Public Defender Michael Caruso said about the appointment of judges in Jay Weaver's article about "the new generation" of appointees.
  
  There's some good stuff in the article, including Judge Scola joking that he wished he was "king of the world." I'm not sure there is' [...]
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• Happy Festivus...

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  ... for the rest of us!
  
  (One day late).
  
  
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• Mixed verdicts in B-Girls trial

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  Three of the four were found guilty of some counts and one was found NG across the board. The Herald coverage is here:
  

  Miami federal jury convicted Stanislav Pavlenko, Albert Takhalov and Isaac Feldman of fleecing hundreds of thousands of dollars from dozens of male customers by racking [...]

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• Borked

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  RIP Robert Bork.  Here are some of the highlights (lowlights?) from the confirmation hearing:
  
  
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• Escape!

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  Two bank-robbers escaped from a federal lockup facility in Chicago through those little slits as windows (4 inches wide) 15 floors up.  Pretty crazy.  From the Chicago Tribune:
  
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• Be civil

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  Have you seen the joint resolution of 42 South Florida Voluntary Bar Associations and six chief judges in South Florida (federal and state) regarding lawyer civility?  Check it out here:
  
  The South Florida VBAs jointly resolve that they shall work together to actively promote the Oath of Civility [...]
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• B-Girls jury still out

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  They started deliberating on Thursday and could be heard laughing in the jury room on Friday afternoon.  Not sure what that means... But no verdict yet.  As soon as I hear something, I will post it.
  
  The cat comments are weird, but the comment about Judge Rosenbaum's' [...]
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• Excellent piece in USA Today on snitching

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  By Brad Heath.  Almost one out of every eight federal prisoners have had their sentence reduced for cooperation.  That's a huge number.  And here's an interesting graphic on how that breaks down:
  
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