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Southern District of Florida Blog

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

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Matthew Menchel leaving U.S. Attorney's Office

That's a big loss for the office. He was the chief of criminal division and a very skilled trial lawyer. He's headed to a firm wit...

Monday, July 30, 2007

Where is everyone?

On most days, you'll find a bunch of reporters in Judge Cooke's courtroom dutifully covering the Jose Padilla trial. Not today. Toda...

Camel racing jockey case dismissed

Judge Altonaga threw out the child camel jockey case against Sheikh Mohammed, the Prime Minister of Dubai, and his brother, Sheikh Hamdam, o...

No questions

That was AG Alberto Gonzalez who was here in the Southern District of Florida today speaking to the National Organization of Black Law Enfor...

Inmates dance to Thriller

Check this out! I don't think the guys over at FDC will be doing this any time soon... HT: Above the Law .

Blackberry blog from court

Sorry for the quick Monday morning blogging. More to come this afternoon. For now check out this Julie Kay article about a new prosecution u...

Friday, July 27, 2007

Maintain radio silence

Looks like the Jose Padilla defense is continuing its trial strategy of trying to distance itself from the other two defendants. As the othe...

Former AUSA making us proud

Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey Levenson always was one of the fairest prosecutors to deal with when he was an AUSA . Now he is showing how...

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