tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post8396715442793937522..comments2024-03-28T22:42:40.503-04:00Comments on Southern District of Florida Blog: Why Professor Dershowitz RocksDavid Oscar Markushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18386723948607633980noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-18683622037902527832009-08-20T10:28:23.740-04:002009-08-20T10:28:23.740-04:00Kahane was expelled from Israel for being too extr...Kahane was expelled from Israel for being too extreme -- the only reason he was not committing open acts of violence was because the State of Israel was established. If it was not, he would have lined up to blow up the King David hotel with the other Israeli "nationalists." In the end, it seems he reaped what he sowed.<br /><br />Dersh ain't a whole lot better -- he claims to be liberal on one hand and with the other supports torture under certain circumstances. A true Bushy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-56130760410462415992009-08-20T09:07:17.055-04:002009-08-20T09:07:17.055-04:00David has a big mancrush on Dersh.David has a big mancrush on Dersh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-17628577733916180072009-08-20T08:10:10.468-04:002009-08-20T08:10:10.468-04:00Scalia and dersh are world class assholes.Scalia and dersh are world class assholes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-33174112552522254352009-08-20T00:01:12.494-04:002009-08-20T00:01:12.494-04:00THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
Under the categories of eith...THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:<br /><br />Under the categories of either:<br /><br />I'm not making this up, or, aren't you glad you chose criminal defense work?<br /><br />"We may have to scan the dockets of the largest bankruptcies in recent U.S. history to see if any of them produced so much legal work as quickly as the Lehman Brothers Chapter 11 has since the bank filed for bankruptcy. <br /><br />Weil, Gotshal & Manges filed it second application for legal fees and expenses late Monday, and, if approved, the firm will have crossed the $100 million mark in total billings.<br /><br />The second application covers four months--Feb. 1 through May 31--and it comes just a few days after Judge James Peck of federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan approved Weil's initial request for about $55 million in fees and expenses for the period of Sept. 15, 2008 through January of this year. <br /><br />The newest application says Weil lawyers billed more than 86,000 hours over those four months, which breaks down roughly to 700 or so hours per day, seven days a week. Wow. And there is a ton of work to be done. The firm is unwinding tens of thousands of derivatives contracts, trying to track down borrowers who owe Lehman and working on more than a dozen transactions in which Lehman will unload (or has already unloaded) some of its most-prized assets in order to raise cash. <br /><br />The winner for biggest biller? That would be a collection of six London-based partners billing $1,005 per hour after exchange rates, a smidgen higher than Weil's bankruptcy chair, Harvey Miller, who is billing $950an hour."<br /><br />Cap Out ....CAPTAIN JUSTICEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12179932096244679236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-50899957126252238002009-08-19T21:05:05.478-04:002009-08-19T21:05:05.478-04:00I would like to see a Paris Hilton v. Scalia debat...I would like to see a Paris Hilton v. Scalia debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-37152787489495301262009-08-19T18:19:45.544-04:002009-08-19T18:19:45.544-04:00With all due respect to "Dersh" that wou...With all due respect to "Dersh" that would be shooting fish in a barrel. Who among us wouldn't want to challenge the outrageous proposition that the constitution allows the execution of an innocent individual? <br /><br />My goal is not to show that Scalia is a bad Catholic. I could care less what he does when he's on his knees. My goal is to show that Scalia is not a true conservative. That when his ox is gored Scalia abandons his philosophy to support his subjective beliefs/desires/concerns. You can see this in Bush v. Gore among other cases that I have highlighted this year. And should Scalia wish to debate me, I would remove the Rumpole mask.Rumpolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08380575650255695462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-20650753405526757222009-08-19T17:37:19.536-04:002009-08-19T17:37:19.536-04:00A great column.
Beyond the question of whether ha...A great column.<br /><br />Beyond the question of whether habeas reaches cases involving "pure innocence," I was also troubled by the weak reasoning Scalia employed in concluding his own actions are entirely moral. His explanation would get him flunked out of most introductory philosophy classes.South Florida Lawyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00810384287103818406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615048.post-81806957822474961232009-08-19T14:51:17.202-04:002009-08-19T14:51:17.202-04:00that would be great on so many levels.that would be great on so many levels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com