Friday, April 10, 2015

Friday news and notes

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1.  Justice Sotomayor had dinner with the Clooneys, per Page Six. 2.  AP : The FBI is getting a $200 million building in Miramar.  But we ...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

An Unusual Decision Not to Publish - by Guest Blogger Brian Toth

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An Unusual Decision Not to Publish - by Brian Toth   Earlier this year, Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Scalia, dissented from th...
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"Was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial necessary?"

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That's the provocative headline to this Nancy Gertner op-ed.  If Tsarnaev would have pleaded guilty to life without parole and where Mas...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Accusations against Dersh stricken

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A justified win for Professor Dershowitz before Judge Marra.  Via the AP : A federal judge rejected a bid by two women to join a high-pr...
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WSJ covers SDFLA as "most productive court"

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The blog reported on this previously, and today the WSJ has the numbers : The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the front office o...
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Monday, April 06, 2015

Mikhail Gorbachev sentenced to 6 years to lottery scam

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Okay, okay -- not that Mikhail Gorbachev .  Actually this guy's name is Mikhail Gorbachev George Williams.  Paula McMahon has the story ...
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Thursday, April 02, 2015

“So much for post racial America.”

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That was Judge Marcia Cooke on her Facebook page after a run-in with Bay Harbor Islands town council candidate Kenneth Eskin.  The Herald ha...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015

"She shrieked with joy."

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That was Federal Public Defender Michael Caruso after learning that his clemency petition for 48-year old Valarie Bozeman was successful.  P...
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