Thursday, September 12, 2019

BREAKING -- Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck to be nominated to the 11th Circuit (UPDATED with President Trump's official release)

Numerous sources have confirmed that Florida Supreme Court Justices Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck are set to be nominated to fill the 11th Circuits seats of Judges Tjoflat and Marcus.  Both are former AUSAs in Miami, former 3rd DCA judges, and current Justices on the Florida Supreme Court.  And both are *excellent.*  A big congrats to them.  Very exciting news.

UPDATE -- shortly after this post, President Trump made it official with this release:
Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate:
Barbara Lagoa of Florida, to serve as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Barbara Lagoa currently serves as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Florida. Prior to her appointment by Governor Ron DeSantis in 2019, Justice Lagoa was a District Judge on the Florida Third District Court of Appeal. Before taking the bench in 2006, Justice Lagoa was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida and spent 11 years in private practice in Miami, Florida. Justice Lagoa also served as the Chair of the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee from 2015 to 2016. Justice Lagoa earned her B.A., cum laude, from Florida International University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she served as Associate Editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Robert J. Luck of Florida, to serve as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Robert Luck currently serves as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Florida. Prior to his appointment by Governor Ron DeSantis in 2019, Justice Luck was a District Judge on the Florida Third District Court of Appeal and a Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. Before taking the bench in 2013, Justice Luck was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. Justice Luck also served as an Adjunct Professor at Alabama State University from 2007 to 2008, where he taught an undergraduate class in business law. Upon graduation from law school, Justice Luck served as a law clerk to Judge Ed Carnes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, to whom he also later served as a Staff Attorney. Justice Luck earned his B.A., with highest honors, from the University of Florida and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Florida Law Review.

14 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:09 PM

    The more prosecutors the better!

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  2. Anonymous7:48 PM

    Think they will let Andrew M surrender? Or, are they gonna go with the whole everybody has a right to be arrested?

    https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiECFWyFVvIAwmnL3RdGEyjWUqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowvIaCCzDnxf4CMP2F8gU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

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  3. Anonymous7:46 AM

    Pardon me for being a Florida (phile) but why would a judge want to go from the Florida supreme court to the 11th circuit? The prestige of the former is greater than that of the latter. On the supreme court, you are the final arbiter of all legal issues about Florida while in the 11th, you are basically anonymous and sending out screeds about the more arcane points of the FLSA and rubber stamping sentences that you know in your heart are travesties of justice.

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  4. I sort of agree with 746 am. One can speculate that if POTUS 45 is re-elected then before the world freezes over (because he said it’s getting colder not hotter) then they have their eyes on residency in DC because there is only so many times RGB can beat cancer. There is a really good deli near the Supreme Court for breakfast and lunch. We’ve moved for less than great deli.

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  5. Anonymous9:25 AM

    Chuck Canady must be pissed. Guess he missed his chance. I bet he retires within 18 months now.
    Kind of a slap in the face to N. Fla. Florida's actives on the 11th now, assuming these two are confirmed, would be 4 out of 5 from Miami (Jordan, Rosenbaum, Lagoa, Luck) and one from Tampa (Wilson).

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  6. Anonymous9:29 AM

    US Circuit Judge is more prestigious than Fla SCt Justice.
    It just is.

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  7. Anonymous9:47 AM

    Also, this is grooming for a S Ct appointment for one of the two of them.

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  8. Anonymous9:50 AM

    Powerful connections - check
    Federalist Society - check
    Connections -check
    Prosecutors - check
    Connections - check
    Young - check
    Connections - check

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  9. Anonymous10:32 AM

    And it could lead to the Supreme Court in the future

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  10. Anonymous10:57 AM

    A possible SCOTUS nomination? Color me old school, but only a first rate ass kisser would start planning his/her career trajectory by believing such tripe. And for what? So you get to live in a glass bubble with your every trip to the men's room analyzed with a microscope and your Amazon Prime wish list poured over by a panel from the APA? No thanks. I would rather spend my Friday afternoons getting lit up at the local gin mil in Tallahassee and then working it off with a round of golf and a $10 Nassau on Saturday morning at the local public links.

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  11. Anonymous11:09 AM

    Sorry, folks, but no credible argument exists that the Florida Supreme Court is more prestigious than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. None.

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  12. Anonymous8:13 PM

    In other news, judge Scola down-rates the loss in the scandal-plagued Esformes Trial and sentences defendant to 20 years for the Bribery-kickback convictions while the Jury hung on the Substantive (fraud) charges.

    https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/article234993252.html

    I still can't believe how Scola threw the magistrate under the bus and rolled over on the misconduct findings.

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  13. Anonymous10:30 PM

    Luck for Supreme Court, World Court, Galactic Court. He must have naked pics of Melania

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  14. Anonymous10:45 AM

    All you really need to be a judge in florida is a hs degree

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