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• Robin Rosenbaum investiture today...

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  ...in Ft. Lauderdale.  Congrats! [...]
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• Breathe.

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   The Miami Herald has some tips for managing stress in today's paper, and it includes advice from Judge Gold:
  
  

  Alan Gold, a federal judge for the Southern District of Florida, also practices mindfulness meditation and has become a proponent of teaching practices for stress reduction to attorneys. Gold' [...]

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• Miami cops being investigated for gambling by FBI

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  According to the Miami Herald:
  
  

  At least a half-dozen Miami Police officers have been targeted by the FBI for their alleged roles in providing protection for a Liberty City sports gambling operation that was uncovered more than a year ago, according to authorities familiar with the case.
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• Appellate action

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  1.  The Supreme Court denied cert in the Hustler pictures case involving nude photos of Nancy Toffoloni Benoit, who was killed (as was her son) by her husband Chris Benoit.  This was the case where the jury awarded $20 million to the family against Hustler, but the judge reduced it [...]
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• I'll see your Holiday Spirit and raise...

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  Chief Judge Moreno has a holiday spirit order of his own, in which he says "in light of the many upcoming holidays, including Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's Day, Three Kings, Day, the Bowl Championship Series Game, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Court GRANTS an enlargement of time for'" [...]
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• Tis the Season....

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  Another reason you gotta love Judge Cooke.  Here's an order from the docket sheet of DemeRx, Inc. v. Chrysalis Pharma Partners:
  
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  12/04/2012' [...]
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• B-girls trial still ongoing

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  Some girls flirt with some guys and take them for a bunch of money and we've made a federal case out of it.  And a long one!  It started back in early October!  It's the Energizer Bunny trial. 
  
  David Lat is profiled here in Details. The intro:
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• Big shoes to fill

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  The Federal Defender's Office and Carlton Fields have some big shoes to fill.  Beatriz Bronis (Deputy Chief of Appeals at the PD's office) and Stephen Bronis (a partner at CF) are starting the next phase of their lives.  From what I hear, neither is retiring, but Beatriz is leaving [...]
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• Two words best describe the majority opinion: “wrong” and “dangerous.”

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  That's how Chief Judge Kozinski starts his dissent in United States v. I.E.V.  You gotta love his writing style:
  
  My colleagues ignore these intractable realities and focus
  instead on irrelevancies. They mention twice (so they must
  think it’s pretty important) that the dog didn’t alert to
  weapons. Maj.' [...]
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