It was a fun week in San Francisco (I can't believe I missed the Father
CutiƩ drama)...
I see the blog was in good hands while I was away.
Rick was great and we hope to have him back on a regular basis.
Just a couple of quick hits before we get going for the week:
-- The Liberty City 6 jury (the latest version of it) will continue deliberating this week. That case is truly jinxed... (In
his post on last week's LC6 happenings, Rick missed Mike
Tein -- who, of course, is
the most quotable lawyer in the District -- from the
Blum article: "What a shameful waste of our taxes at the worst possible time. Just think what $10 million could have done for our schoolchildren in Liberty City.")
-- The District now has a
Wiki page. It's interesting to look at the historical makeup of the Court. (Some trivia pointed out on the page: "This federal district has the dubious distinction of having had more judges
removed through impeachment than any other district, with a total of two, one-third of all federal district judges so removed.")
-- Justice O'Connor had this to say about judicial elections: "They're awful. I hate them."
More here.
-- Rick
posted on the
FIU faculty vote for Dean, and
FIU law professor Howard
Wasserman has a lot to say about the vote and the coverage
here. Howard criticizes the open proceedings and compares it to watching sausages being made. Gotta disagree with Howard here -- we wanna know how sausages are made. Open proceedings are a good thing. Better to have the press in there and reporting (even if the coverage in this case wasn't complete) than the alternative of having the doors closed.
--
Rumpole demonstrates why
the Ben
Kuehne case needs to be dismissed.