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• Your Monday Morning Digital Dump!

  Number of comments: 4
  
  I need a dump truck baby to, unload my head....
  
  Hi there, raise your hand if you thought bringing Chad Johnson to the Dolphins was a bad idea?
  
  Well now he has a lawyer instead of a job:
  

  Just after 8:30 a.m., Johnson appeared live [...]

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• The Markus Fights Back!

  Number of comments: 7
  
  Dr. Ali Shaygan and David Markus (pictured above) have petitioned the Supreme Court to review the 11th Circuit's reversal of sanctions in a prosecution so marred by allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that Judge Gold awarded over $600k in fees.
  
  BLT has the latest:
  

  More than 50 [...]

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• Another Reason to Not Check Emails at Lunch.

  Number of comments: 3
  
  How'd you like to get this order come across your fancy iPhone while you are enjoying lunch?
  
  It's an order from Magistrate Judge Goodman, scheduling a sanctions hearing against plaintiff QBE Insurance and its attorneys stemming from a summary judgment in favor of the defendant that' [...]
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• Your SD FL Affirmative Defense Class is Back in Session!

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  Continuing our series of instructive orders from SD FL judges on affirmative defenses, here is one by Judge Marra granting partial summary judgment on a few truly lame-o ones.
  
  Yes, kids, you can move for summary judgment on affirmative defenses:
  

  Defendant’s First Affirmative [...]

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• 3d DCA Watch -- Summer Bunker Time (and the Living Is Easy).

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  You can tell it's August in the bunker, as the PCAs pile up and nobody even bothers with appearances anymore.
  
  Today we have exactly one opinion, with a Judge Shepherd dissent, involving a class action by some condo owners against Citizens Property Insurance.
  
  I'd keep' [...]
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• New Way to Represent Client: Send Tweet to Miami Herald!

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  All you social media quasi-lawyer types Tannebaum is always talking about, take note:  here is the intersection of law and Twitter, revealed:
  

  An attorney representing the former University of Miami Hurricanes safety said Tuesday night that he plans to file an injunction later this week to [...]

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• Getting Cute With the Line Spacing?

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  I'm really enjoying this suit involving "The Situation" and Abercrombie & Fitch pending before Judge Lenard.
  
  The parties are busy briefing a motion to dismiss directed to the second amended complaint, and a motion to strike stuff from that pleading, but I found this footnote to' [...]
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• (I Can't Get No) Cooperation!

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  Here's another fine Magistrate Judge Goodman order, this time on privilege logs.
  
  Apparently you need to ask for responsive documents first before the other side has to list them on a privilege log:
  

  Rule 26(b)(5)(A) requires a party to describe privileged documents “when a party withholds information' [...]

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• Your Monday Morning Digital Dump!

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  Hi there, what a nice dreary way to start the work week (for those of you still here).
  
  Let's take a quick peek around town:
  
  1.  The Herald wades into the swamp of judicial election campaigns.
  
  This is an interesting article because it alludes [...]
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• Gaze Upon Judge Cooke's Scott Rothstein/TD Bank Sanctions Order!

  Number of comments: 11
  
  Nice to see Rule 37 get a little teeth.
  
  Here's part of the order dealing with GT and its lawyers:
  

  The individual Greenberg Traurig attorneys’ handling of this case left much to be desired. The document review and production appears to have been conducted [...]

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