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 the 11th Circuit and apparently no progress being made in moving those nominations forward.
Since the 11th got back to business this week, it has ruled on an interesting case involving Cuba. From Bloomberg:
Florida lost a court bid to reinstate
a law prohibiting state agencies from entering into contracts
worth $1 million or more with companies that do business with
Cuba.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta said today that the
Florida measure “reaches far beyond the federal law in numerous
ways and undermines the president’s exercise of the discretion
afforded him by Congress.” A three-judge panel upheld a July
ruling by a lower court in Miami barring enforcement of the law.
The “Cuba Amendment” legislation was signed on May 1,
2012, by Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, and covers
an estimated $8 billion in annual state contracts, the appeals
court said. The law, designed to apply economic pressure to the
communist regime in Cuba beyond the U.S. government sanctions
already in place, was challenged by Odebrecht Construction Inc.
And back home in South Florida, it looks like Judge Rosenbaum will be busy with this case filed by Frank Haith. From the Herald:
Former University of Miami basketball coach Frank Haith on Monday
morning filed a petition in Miami-Dade federal court seeking subpoenas
to try to uncover whether his checking account records were accessed
illegally by unauthorized parties as part of the NCAA Nevin Shapiro
investigation.
He and his attorney, Michael Buckner, want to be
able to depose Bank of America employees and make sure the bank
preserves evidence in anticipation of a civil lawsuit.
The Rule
27 Petition, obtained by The Miami Herald, states that in October 2012,
Haith and his wife, Pamela, became suspicious of a possible privacy
breach and have tried unsuccessfully to resolve the issue through
repeated requests to the bank. If a Bank of America employee or agent
permitted an unknown party to view or procure the records, it could be a
violation of federal and state laws.
Haith, now at the University of Missouri, had been asked by the
NCAA to provide microfiche copies of three checks dated June 10, 2010.
He had already provided photocopies of those checks, and other financial
documents, in October 2011, but the NCAA wanted clearer images. Each
check was for $3,200 andmade out to his assistant coaches — Jorge
Fernandez, Jake Morton and Michael Schwartz.
3 comments:
The article does not mention Judge Rosenbaum; why do you suggest this case is hers?
Acheem. Those were the last two posts by SFL: Haith and Cuba.
Was there any mention of Gideon's 50th anniversary?
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