Comments on Southern District of Florida Blog: Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

Who runs the South Florida Lawyers blog?

2008-03-25T13:13:00.000-04:00

Who runs the South Florida Lawyers blog?

Alex Kozinski belongs on the USSCt. You can Googl...

2008-03-25T09:30:00.000-04:00

Alex Kozinski belongs on the USSCt. You can Google him and check out other opinions. What a breath of fresh air in the contaminated State of California. Check out his dissent in California assault weapon ban case en banc. There is also a website devoted to his antics.

I just lost one -- I'm still trying to get over it...

2008-03-24T19:39:00.000-04:00

I just lost one -- I'm still trying to get over it... But thankfully the prosecutors were gentlemen.

David is friends with any AUSA he has beaten in tr...

2008-03-24T19:21:00.000-04:00

David is friends with any AUSA he has beaten in trial -- and, that is quite a few, with the pool growing every year!

Meanwhile, the best part of the opinion from the 9th is the following:

"We acknowledge that the Eleventh Circuit in King v. Allstate
Insurance Co., 906 F.2d 1537, 1539-41 (11th Cir. 1990),
held that a policy clause similar to paragraph 10 was sufficient
to supersede the insured’s duty under uberrimae fidei,
but (for reasons explained above) we are unpersuaded and
decline to follow the Eleventh Circuit. We hope, rather, that
our colleagues there will reconsider this question the next
time they have occasion to rule on it."

I thought you didn't have any friends who were AUS...

2008-03-24T17:30:00.000-04:00

I thought you didn't have any friends who were AUSA's