The cut has been made and there are 10 finalists for two spots. It's very hush-hush though, and I only have a partial list. Come on tipsters, give me more. Here's what I have so far:
Carolyn Bell (AUSA)
Dave Brannon (AFPD)
Kim Dunn-Abel (AUSA)
Bill Matthewman
Jeremy Slusher
Bob Waters (AUSA)
Wendy Zoberman
There are a bunch of magistrate positions that are open in the District, so the Chief entered an intersting order precluding applicants from lobbying District Judges. Good move.
The SDFLA Blog is dedicated to providing news and notes regarding federal practice in the Southern District of Florida. The New Times calls the blog "the definitive source on South Florida's federal court system." All tips on court happenings are welcome and will remain anonymous. Please email David Markus at dmarkus@markuslaw.com
Holey Moley - Bill Matthewman.
ReplyDeleteCould there be a better pick?
Interesting DOM, that you have conveniently ignored the 11th's reversal of Judge Gold's scathing opinion finding misconduct against the AUSA's in the Shaygin matter. What . . . you don't believe in reporting ALL of the facts?
ReplyDeleteDavid never blogged about Shaygan, even when it went down. I would say he has been very consistent in keeping his own cases off this blog.
ReplyDelete11:27 -- DOM was quoted in yesterday's Herald as saying that he'd try to take the case en banc. Perhaps it wouldn't be the best of ideas for DOM to comment on it on the blog.
ReplyDelete1127 am - Markus does not blog anonymously - don't hid behid your tin badge and comment anonymously. HAVE SOME COURAGE.
ReplyDeleteWeasel.
The Shaygan decision underscores one of the major issues with the Eleventh Circuit's practice of having so many visiting judges on their panels. You have one 11th Cir judge agreeing with Judge Gold and one 11th Cir. judge disagreeing with him. The tie is then broken by a visiting judge. So on a very sensitive matter of rebuking a district court judge on a very public case of prosecutorial misconduct, the decision gets made by a visiting judge. David should take it en banc, and have the Eleventh Circuit do its job.
ReplyDelete9:42 -- You raise an interesting point, and one that has merit (especially when it comes to district-court judges sitting by designation, whom I've often thought may be shy about disagreeing with their superiors), but I'm not so sure that's the case here. Judge Barksdale is an experienced circuit-court judge who has an impressive background. There's no obvious reason why he'd side with Pryor and not Edmonson if he wasn't persuaded that Pryor was correct. If the case does go en banc, there'll be judges siding with Pryor, too.
ReplyDeleteMy point was not a critism of Barksdale, but of a system that prevents the Eleventh Circuit from speaking with a consistent, cohesive voice. The Eleventh Circuit has so many visiting judges (circuit, district, court of international trade, people's court) because it does not want to increase the number of judges to accurately relfect their caseload - it is a fight that Tjoflat and Hatchet often had and that continues today. The result, in my opinion, is a dillution of 11th circuit jurisprudence. No doubt that, en banc, many judges would side with Pryor, but they would at least be 11th circuit judges speaking for the 11th circuit.
ReplyDelete*Hatchett
ReplyDelete