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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, October 23, 2012

Judge Bandstra to JAMS

The DBR covers Judge Bandstra's departure to JAMS . Good luck to him! There are some good stories about him in the article: Bandstra...

Monday, October 22, 2012

Monday news & notes

1. Who wants to go to Pakistan? Apparently the defense does in what was dubbed the "Pakistani Taliban" case when it was filed lo...

Friday, October 19, 2012

Judge Jordan can't wait to see Lincoln

From his opinion yesterday : Following the 1860 election, President Abraham Lincoln chose a cabinet “comprised of enemies and opponent...

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Debates

This is pretty funny from Family Guy:

BREAKING -- MAGISTRATE SHORT LIST

The Magistrate Committee has cut the list to five names and now it's up to the judges to pick your next Ft. Lauderdale magistrate. Here...

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Shameful

Bloomberg has a story today about our country's incarceration rates. It's jaw-dropping. We jail more people than any other countr...

Monday, October 15, 2012

"The result is that we will end up with a bench populated only by former state court judges and lawyers from government or academia."

That's David Mandel in this article by John Pacenti about the Federal JNC and the process of picking federal judges. He makes a point....

Friday, October 12, 2012

Congrats to Bill Matthewman

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