"DEET should be the new perfume in Wynwood"

Oof, what a disaster. Zika in Wynwood. The Herald has the details:

With a dozen local cases of Zika now confirmed in a single neighborhood, Miami-Dade County officials are ramping up efforts to combat the urban mosquito blamed for spreading the virus.

A team of 12 inspectors will be increased to 32 on Tuesday. They will patrol for breeding hotspots and hit those areas with back-pack foggers or other mosquito-killing treatments. More personnel will be added if needed, said public works and waste management spokeswoman Gayle Love.

Outreach efforts that began in February after Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency are also being increased. Over the weekend, the school district used its robo-call system to warn the families of some 355,000 school children to be on guard. The calls follow increased outreach that began with the start of the mosquito season in June, when the county sent mailers to every county resident about “a drain and cover” program which Love said is considered “the first line of defense” against mosquitoes.

Now where will Miami lawyers go to lunch?

An example why state court is fun, via David Ovalle:

True to the social media age, Genesis Davila only learned she had been stripped of her crown as Miss Florida USA when she saw a Facebook post featuring the runner-up accepting the title.

Now, she’s hoping social media will be her salvation.

The key evidence: an Instagram post cited by pageant management that purportedly showed Davila getting professional hair and makeup help, a supposed no-no under contest rules. But at a press conference Monday, her lawyer held up a blown-up photo of the post, pointing out the pic was dated more than a week before July’s Miss Florida contest.

Pageant boss Grant Gravitt Jr. cropped out the date on the Instagram post to falsely smear Davila, lawyer Richard Wolfe said in announcing a defamation lawsuit seeking $15 million — and a return of her crown.

Shouldn't the government let you move on with your life after an acquittal?

You would think so.

But not so much with Mike Pizzi, who the government tried to set up again (this time it was the State). There won't be an indictment or trial in this case, and Pizzi made it clear on tapes that he was clean. Dave Ovalle from The Herald has the scoop:

The allegations against Pizzi surfaced at an Aug. 6, 2015, meeting when Flores, again secretly recording the exchange, asked if Pinder was still getting a monthly $3,000 kickback from Pizzi for getting him the job. Pinder sounded baffled.

“Mike don’t give me sh-t,” Pinder said angrily.

“He owes you three grand a month. ... He’s f---ing you,” said Flores, who claimed Pizzi was also supposed to give him $1,000 a month.

With Flores at his side, a testy Pinder called Pizzi on speakerphone. “Are you f---ing me, Mike? ” Pinder told him. “He says you’re f---ing me.”

“What are you talking about,” Pizzi replied.

The conversation quickly turned to joking around and plans for dinner. “You saw how he changed the conversation?” Flores said after they hung up, adding: “He’s taking you to the cleaners.”

The three never got together for dinner. But Flores did meet with Pizzi on Oct. 13 at Lakes Seafood. He did not confront Pizzi, according to the secret tapes, asking only that Pinder “thought I was getting money from you.”

Pizzi replied that he paid nobody, then floated a plan to ask Pinder to get the city to hire him for “special litigation” at $150 an hour. “Just to get back in the door,” Pizzi said on the recording. “All he gets is great services at a great cost.”

Pizzi told the Miami Herald that Flores called him later, pressing him to get involved in a corruption scheme in Opa-locka. He said he sent Flores a text that he wasn’t for sale: “Jose. Thanks. my friend. But I’m not interested in Opa Locka. DON’T DO BUSINESS THAT WAY. SEE YOU SOON. THEY CAN FIND ANOTHER LAWYER.”

The two did not speak again until December, when Pizzi said Flores called to meet for a drink at the Havana Group Cigar Club in Miami Lakes. As football blared on the TV in the background, Pizzi urged Flores to stay away from Opa-locka and leave him out of city business.

“Do me a favor, never mention my name,” Pizzi said.

Bragging on my partner Margot Moss

She has the cover story in NACDL's The Champion this month. It's a primer on restitution, titled "Restitution in Federal White Collar Cases."

This reminded me of Judge Palermo and his pocket Constitution

Rosenbaum/Jill Pryor: we're trying to be nice here but our colleagues are really really wrong

That's the message in this -- yet another Johnson -- concurrence (which Jordan did not join).  From the intro and then the conclusion:

To err is human; to forgive, divine; but to correct? Well ... after In re
Baptiste, No. 16-13959, _ F.3d _, 2016 WL 3752118 (I Ith Cir. July 13, 2016),
that's not something we do in this Circuit, when it comes to wrongly denied
inmates' requests for authorization to file a second or successive habeas petition.
So some inmates with sentences unconstitutionally enhanced under the Armed
Career Criminal Act may sit in prison for years beyond their constitutionally
authorized sentences. Though we deeply respect our colleagues, we think this is
just wrong.
***
Arnold Bennett said that "[a]ll wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that
it is the best thing to do." We do not doubt our colleagues' intentions in issuing
Baptiste. But their good intentions do not make their conclusions in that case, in
our view, any less wrong.