Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Veterans Day

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Rumpole has his yearly post up about Veterans Day.  It's a good read. The courts are closed today, but what about your office?  Seem...
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Friday, November 07, 2014

FDC-Miami holds first Daddy-Daughter Dance

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This is both incredible and awfully sad at the same time ( via the Miami Herald ): The bureau hosted its inaugural Daddy-Daughter dance ...
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6th Circuit upholds gay marriage ban, creates circuit split

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It's an interesting debate about the role of judges.  Is it the judiciary's duty to defer to the will of the people or to provide a ...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014

"No, I'm not talking about Congress. I'm talking about the prosecutor. What kind of a mad prosecutor would try to send this guy up for 20 years or risk sending him up for 20 years?"

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That was Justice Scalia today in the "fish case", Yates v. U.S. , going after the government lawyer for his argument on the statut...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Judge Hoeveler's retirement reception

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Here he is with some of his colleagues from last week's reception honoring him.
Monday, November 03, 2014

Ft. Lauderdale jury finds UBS executive not guilty in tax case

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Matthew Menchel represented Raoul Weil in this lengthy trial before Judge Cohn.  Here's the AP's Curt Anderson : A federal jury ac...
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"An estimated 20,000 persons, or more, ... are in prison for crimes to which they pleaded guilty but did not in fact commit."

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And those are conservative numbers according to Judge Jed Rakoff, who has written a compelling piece explaining that innocent people are ple...
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Stop using Courier (and Times New Roman)

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Font choices are in the news because the Massachusetts Supreme Court is still using Courier, as are a number of judges in this District.  Yo...