According to Marcel Berlins, English judges have never had gavels, despite what you routinely see on the BBC.
He is not amused.
(via The Magistrate's Blog)
edited by: Kay Day,
Florida Editor
According to Marcel Berlins, English judges have never had gavels, despite what you routinely see on the BBC.
He is not amused.
(via The Magistrate's Blog)
Today's Miami Herald editorial board urges George LeMieux to drop his "hold" on the US ambassador to Brazil.
"When George LeMieux was appointed three months ago to replace retiring U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, the 40-year-old former chief of staff to Gov. Charlie Crist vowed to focus on making government more efficient and" [...]
(From SNL)
There's a lot that rings true in the broad-brush parts Matt Tabbi's latest screed although I take exception to the most vicious bits, like the line about Palin “having the brains of an innertube.”
No, Palin is [...]
Florida doesn’t have monsoons,The dynamic duo of Gov. Charlie Crist and Sen. George LeMieux will be the "featured guests'' at a fundraising lunch for the Republican Party of Florida on Tuesday at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale.
Hosted by Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer, tickets to the reception start at $1,000" [...]
We got our Swine Flu shots today — except the youngest, who had gotten the live nasal vaccine in school a few days ago.
The rest of us got the shots through UM, which is vaccinating employees and their children. The Sunday operation was run with extreme efficiency; we were in [...]
For a minute there I thought I'd gotten my first phishing email from Iran. But after a look at the headers, I think maybe not?
Received: from law.miami.edu ([172.16.8.69]) by EXCHVS.law.miami.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
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Received: from ([194.225.184.9])
by mx-01.law.miami.edu with ESMTP id 5202001.34032630;
[...]
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1964)Could Miami have a revolt against FCAT like the one just seen in Palm Beach County? Parents and teachers in Palm Beach joined together to put a halt to a vast over-emphasis on FCAT.
Why did this happen in Palm Beach?
According to the Palm Beach Post, the precipitating events centered around [...]
Friday, November 22, 1963. I was in the sixth grade in Toledo, Ohio. I had to skip Phys Ed because I was just getting over bronchitis, so I was in a study hall when a classmate came up from the locker room in the school basement to [...] 
What is it about fall --A bevy of Republican senators -- including Florida's George LeMieux -- took to the lectern ahead of today's Senate vote to allow debate on a sweeping health care bill.
LeMieux said his office has fielded 950 calls on the matter in the last 6 days -- and at least 800 callers [...]
Here's what I did this afternoon:
More details at Soul of Miami and Sex and the Beach.
It was a good party - met Mustang Bobby and saw the Miami Beach 411 crowd — always the life of the party. Plus I met the [...]
Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist.
Walter Kendall Myers, 72 -- known to his Cuban handlers as ``Agent 202'' -- agreed to a life sentence without' [...]
Jonathan Simon writes that California's protesters should Strike Against Prisons not Education.
(Note: Jon wrote this before the latest round of protests.)
[...]Advocates of a 'plain meaning' approach to constitutional interpretation may have to conclude that Texas accidentally banned all marriage, as described in this McClatchy report, Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston' [...]
Attorney General Bill McCollum says there is reason to appeal a circuit court ruling dismissing part of the criminal case against dethroned House Speaker Ray Sansom.
A motion motion filed today with the First District Court of Appeal, lays out several technical arguments why the appeal is justified and asks the appellate court [...]
State Sen. Mike Bennett sent an angry letter to the state's five Public Service Commissioners this week, "appalled with the lack of oversight'' in the general counsel selection process when it let agency executive director Mary Bane "change the rules as you go in order to accommodate candidates who failed to meet the deadlines.''
"With'" [...]
US News rankings are biased in ways that hurt the U. Miami Law; here's one I would guess is biased in our favor: 2010 Super Lawyers U.S. Law School Rankings by Super Lawyers magazine. They say we are #20 [...]
From Hotline OnCall:
FL Gov. Charlie Crist (R) -- under fire from conservatives for his famous embrace with Pres. Obama at a Feb. event in support of the stimulus package -- would not embrace ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) today, noting that Palin hasn't offered her endorsement of his FL SEN' [...]
Jonathan Simon writes that California's protesters should Strike Against Prisons not Education.
(Note: Jon wrote this before the latest round of protests.)
[...]A source close to the case tells the Herald that Walter and Gwendolyn Myers -- accused of spying for Cuba for decades -- will plead guilty this afternoon in federal court.
Myers, 72, and his wife, have been held without bond since pleading not guilty last June to charges of wire fraud, serving [...]
Attending a fundraiser for his US Senate campaign at a law firm in downtown DC, Gov. Charlie Crist insisted his focus remains Florida and job creation -- as the state's unemployment rate edged up to 11.2 percent.
"I just think it's so important to stay focused on jobs, jobs, jobs," Crist said, suggesting [...]
Attorney Bill Scherer filed his lawsuit today in Broward suing disgraced attorney Scott Rothstein, a few employees at the firm and TD Bank, among others. We are sifting through 300-some pages of documents, but here is our favorite Rothstein phrase so far:
"Ciao ciao, Money never sleeps motherfucker :)
That's how Rothstein" [...]
Former Vice President Al Gore visits SNL.
