Wednesday is National Hot Dog day. No word on whether El Chapo Café will have specials.
In over thirty years we have never, ever, eaten anything from any of the carts that populate the streets outside of the REGJB.
Query: has any reader eaten a hot dog from a cart outside of the courthouse? Reviews?
WHAT NOT TO DO:
Dateline- Ohio.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that attorney Brian W Benbow was in court with a client for a child-visitation matter in December, 2014. In a conference room that had a live video feed that was monitored by courthouse deputies, Benbow put his files and coat on his lap. and then his client's hand underneath the coat.
A sex act ensued involving the client's metacarpophalangeal joints and the lawyer's intromittent organ. The ending of this union was anything but happy. Benbow has been suspended by the Ohio Supreme Court for two years.
Helpful Rumpole practice tip of the day. DO NOT DO THIS.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Monday, July 16, 2018
FDC AND OTHER THINGS THAT ANNOY US
A STAR IS BORN:
Before we get to FDC, we must say that a blog-star is born. Our intrepid, erstwhile and putative REGJB Juror Mr. Samuel Danzinger, Esq., has left a comment, which we post here with the simple invitation- Mr. Danizger, the blog is yours to use and enjoy. Should you feel so inclined, please email us your thoughts, reminiscences of Dade legal days long gone, and those who wore black robes from that era, and we shall print them-unedited- on the front page, where your ideas and thoughts surely belong.
Samuel R. Danziger said...
STRAWSSUCK STINK : (even we couldn't tolerate the pun).
Longtime and careful readers of the blog know that we have continually railed against the use of straws. They are unnecessary and an environmental hazard. The rest of the world has now caught up. Rumpole as a trailblazer once more.
FDC: WTF?
First of all, props where due. FDC is the best jail in Miami. You can email and have your clients waiting for. This is big. And we have seen a definite improvement in the staff hustling lawyers in and out, which is also much appreciated.
But why does FDC need to know the license plate number of our car, as well as the make, model, year and color? It's total waste of time to fill that stuff out. And how about this- when we take Uber or walk and indicate that on the form, at least half of the time they kick it back and ask us if we own a car and to list it. And this is the ridiculous part. Once the information is written, they do nothing with it. Otherwise they would want to know why a lawyer is driving a 1958 Powder Blue Edsel with the license plate from Alaska of "Trmpstnks"which is generally how we fill out the form.
Second, we can email our request, why can't we at least have the forms on line or in PDF format so our crack staff can fill them out in our office and thus save us valuable time when we arrive? One might hope that a certain popular and influential blogger who runs a blog about the Southern District Of Florida would join this bandwagon and try and get FDC to allow the forms to be in PDF format on line so they can be filled out before hand.
And don't even get us started on the locker placement/key issue. And when it is raining, and it is raining a lot these days, there is no place to leave an umbrella.
Minutiae:
We are also bothered that Starbucks puts a plastic lid on every cup, even those we drink inside the store. A waste of plastic at a time, environmentally, when we cannot keep doing that.
Andy Weir's new novel-Atremis- about a lunar colony, is a good summer read. The Martian was great, and we recommend that if you haven't read it yet.
Also, every now and then it's good for the soul and work to pick up Henry V and give it a re-read. There is nothing better than reading Shakespeare in a cool London Pub on a hot summer day with a pint of their best, or two. Henry V is Shakes recounting of our England's great victory at the battle of Agincourt. The passions of men about to head into war. The intrigue of the clergy, who manipulated the lust for blood.
From Occupied America, once more into the breach dear readers, once more...
Before we get to FDC, we must say that a blog-star is born. Our intrepid, erstwhile and putative REGJB Juror Mr. Samuel Danzinger, Esq., has left a comment, which we post here with the simple invitation- Mr. Danizger, the blog is yours to use and enjoy. Should you feel so inclined, please email us your thoughts, reminiscences of Dade legal days long gone, and those who wore black robes from that era, and we shall print them-unedited- on the front page, where your ideas and thoughts surely belong.
Samuel R. Danziger said...
Right Hon Horace:
Seek and ye shall find a place to leave a comment. I sought and now found your comment section. First, I have just enjoyed each and every comment. As 5:43 said, I am a retired civil attorney who could not serve while being active with the Florida Bar. Now, second, the 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 magnets come from a firm by the name of Quotable Cards. (http://www.quotablecards.com/our-products/). The firm produces greeting cards, mugs,
magnets, etc and they are sold locally by Whole Foods. You will find a spin rack near their checkout registers although the selection may vary from your taste. In that event, please follow though and contact the firm for information on custom made.
All the best, Sam Danziger
Seek and ye shall find a place to leave a comment. I sought and now found your comment section. First, I have just enjoyed each and every comment. As 5:43 said, I am a retired civil attorney who could not serve while being active with the Florida Bar. Now, second, the 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 magnets come from a firm by the name of Quotable Cards. (http://www.quotablecards.com/our-products/). The firm produces greeting cards, mugs,
magnets, etc and they are sold locally by Whole Foods. You will find a spin rack near their checkout registers although the selection may vary from your taste. In that event, please follow though and contact the firm for information on custom made.
All the best, Sam Danziger
STRAWS
Longtime and careful readers of the blog know that we have continually railed against the use of straws. They are unnecessary and an environmental hazard. The rest of the world has now caught up. Rumpole as a trailblazer once more.
FDC: WTF?
First of all, props where due. FDC is the best jail in Miami. You can email and have your clients waiting for. This is big. And we have seen a definite improvement in the staff hustling lawyers in and out, which is also much appreciated.
But why does FDC need to know the license plate number of our car, as well as the make, model, year and color? It's total waste of time to fill that stuff out. And how about this- when we take Uber or walk and indicate that on the form, at least half of the time they kick it back and ask us if we own a car and to list it. And this is the ridiculous part. Once the information is written, they do nothing with it. Otherwise they would want to know why a lawyer is driving a 1958 Powder Blue Edsel with the license plate from Alaska of "Trmpstnks"which is generally how we fill out the form.
Second, we can email our request, why can't we at least have the forms on line or in PDF format so our crack staff can fill them out in our office and thus save us valuable time when we arrive? One might hope that a certain popular and influential blogger who runs a blog about the Southern District Of Florida would join this bandwagon and try and get FDC to allow the forms to be in PDF format on line so they can be filled out before hand.
And don't even get us started on the locker placement/key issue. And when it is raining, and it is raining a lot these days, there is no place to leave an umbrella.
Minutiae:
We are also bothered that Starbucks puts a plastic lid on every cup, even those we drink inside the store. A waste of plastic at a time, environmentally, when we cannot keep doing that.
Andy Weir's new novel-Atremis- about a lunar colony, is a good summer read. The Martian was great, and we recommend that if you haven't read it yet.
Also, every now and then it's good for the soul and work to pick up Henry V and give it a re-read. There is nothing better than reading Shakespeare in a cool London Pub on a hot summer day with a pint of their best, or two. Henry V is Shakes recounting of our England's great victory at the battle of Agincourt. The passions of men about to head into war. The intrigue of the clergy, who manipulated the lust for blood.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger.
And of course...
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And the words all those who wear black robes, and all those who practice before them should heed:
Men of few words are the best men.
From Occupied America, once more into the breach dear readers, once more...
Friday, July 13, 2018
MILLAN RESIGNS
Facing an uproar over his conduct, and a Florida Supreme Court not in the mood to tolerate Judicial name calling that has racial overtones, Judge Stephen Millan, who was elected to the Circuit bench, has resigned.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
A JUROR WRITES ABOUT BEING A JUROR IN THE REGJB
We received an email from a civic minded citizen who wrote about his recent experience as a juror in the REGJB. As is our wont, we responded asking if we could use the email and if he wanted us to use his name or not. He responded.
Here is the second email authorizing us to use his name:
Dear Mr Roark:
Here is the second email authorizing us to use his name:
Dear Mr Roark:
First, I like the blog; you are congratulated, but, most of all, your contributors must first be congratulated for without them you would just be spitting into the wind.
Now, you may only use my comment exactly as written and only with my name. As for civic duty, be aware that I will be 81 years old in three weeks, have never been
able to serve before by occupation even though being a resident of Dade County (Miami-Dade, ugh) since 1973.
Samuel R. Danziger
PS: Apropos yours of WSC, I have a magnetic graphic on my refrigerator -
NEVER
NEVER
NEVER
GIVE
UP
wsc
And here is the first email from Mr. Danziger about his experience as a juror.
Tuesday for the first time since moving to Dade County in 1973 I was called for Jury duty.
Looked forward to the day. Reported at 8:30(as usual MetroRail has malfunction so Train was late – good old Dade County)instead of 8AM.
After a rousing and enjoyable welcome by Judge Sloan all jurors enjoyed talking, smartphones, generally lounging.
In the AM two panels were called out and then time for the noon break.
In the PM, around 1:45, all remaining jurors were called and escorted from the 7th floor Juror Pool room to the elevator lobby on the 5th floor. Put around 30-40 people in that dingy area,
not even enough hard benches to sit on so some sat on the floor(sat on the floor!)
FOR TWO HOURS. No word what was going on, NO ONE TO TELL THE ASSEMBLE TO GO BACK
TO THE JURY POOL ROOM. Eventually(@ 3:45) a little woman came to hand out certificates of attendance, and told everyone to skeddatle.
Yes sir, good old Gerstein building treatment courtesy of Dade County. Is it any wonder anyone would opt for excuse rather than attend to a CIVIC DUTY ?
Dear Mr. Danziger.
Thank you for serving as a potential juror. We apologize for the inconvenience and uncomfortable surroundings of the fifth floor. We know the Judge responsible for this all-too-common snafu will read this. Perhaps in the future Judges will be more considerate to jurors sitting outside for hours (And on the floor!!).
You were certainly owed a least a personal thank you by the Judge for keeping you all waiting. But then again, remember, this is a judge we are talking about, so we can only hope for so much.
Thank you for staying in Dade County all these years when we are sure many of your peers fled north.
And thank you for contributing to our blog.
You have done your civic duty X 3.
Well done sir!
Well done indeed.
Your obt' srvt
Horace Rumpole, Esq, Blogger.
PS. Where can we purchase a refrigerator magnet like you have?
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
OTHER GREAT PREDICTIONS
In light of our "swing and a miss" on the nomination of Judge Hardiman to the Supreme Court, we reflect on failures great and small.
Michael Jordan missed over 9,000 shots in his career. Twenty-six times he took the game-winning shot and missed. So failure is part of success.
10) There's no way Bill Clinton, some hick-governor beats George Bush, a president who just won a war.
9) I'm not sure Amazon will make it as a stock.
8) Cameras in cell phones are a fad.
7) Social media is a fad.
6) Nobody will eat vegan for long.
5) Diet beer? Are you kidding me?
4) WTF is Instagram?
3) I'm sure they'll build a new criminal courthouse in Miami by 1990.
2) The US will never elect a President with a middle name of Hussein.
1) I wonder who will serve in the President Hillary Clinton Cabinet?
The measure of a blogger is not how many times we fall down and fail, but how many times we get back up and blog again.
COMING TOMORROW: A JUROR'S VIEW OF THE REGJB!
Michael Jordan missed over 9,000 shots in his career. Twenty-six times he took the game-winning shot and missed. So failure is part of success.
10) There's no way Bill Clinton, some hick-governor beats George Bush, a president who just won a war.
9) I'm not sure Amazon will make it as a stock.
8) Cameras in cell phones are a fad.
7) Social media is a fad.
6) Nobody will eat vegan for long.
5) Diet beer? Are you kidding me?
4) WTF is Instagram?
3) I'm sure they'll build a new criminal courthouse in Miami by 1990.
2) The US will never elect a President with a middle name of Hussein.
1) I wonder who will serve in the President Hillary Clinton Cabinet?
The measure of a blogger is not how many times we fall down and fail, but how many times we get back up and blog again.
COMING TOMORROW: A JUROR'S VIEW OF THE REGJB!
Monday, July 09, 2018
JUSTICE THOMAS HARDIMAN
UPDATE: JUST LABEL THIS UNDER "SOMETIMES WRONG NEVER IN DOUBT"
In the end it wasn't so much that Judge Hardiman's working class background and now famous cab that he drove throughout law school that appealed to the President as much as it was the privileged and Bush/DC insider status that turned POTUS off to the front runner Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
What we known as of 4:26 PM EDST is that Judge Thomas Hardiman, of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, where he happens to serve with another Judge who happens to be the sister of POTUS, will be nominated to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Judge Kavanaugh didn't even make it to the top two. The runner-up this time around is conservative darling of the religious right- Judge Amy Barrett. But it was Senator McConnell (R-no morals, ideals, or principals) who warned Trump off of Judge Barrett, telling the President that her right wing religious views would lose at least three Republican senators votes which would be more than enough to defeat the Judge.
The President is notoriously (stupid, feckless) fickle, could change his mind (or what acts as his mind) in the next few hours. But as of now, the White House is preparing to roll out Judge Hardiman, a reliably conservative vote in the manner of Justice Alito-but less so- in the 9PM TV extravaganza.
Johnny- tell our contestant what he has won.
"Judge Hardman. Congratulations! You have won an all expense paid relocation to Washington, DC, where you will be given chambers at the spacious Supreme Court located in our nations capital. You will be given a lifetime appointment and will receive your salary to the day you die. You will work from later September through June, and will be able to schedule your summer months with lucrative teaching positions in England, Germany, Australia, or Spain to name but a few of the countries that have universities that will bid for your services.
But wait! There's more! You will receive a spacious chambers with room for clerks who will read the records, read the briefs, and write your first drafts. You will be invited to lunch by Justice Clarence Thomas where he will regale you with tales of what he is texting during oral argument.
All of this, and more can be yours Judge Hardiman, if you just go to the Senate and refuse to answer any questions about overturning Roe v. Wade with the response that you cannot comment on hypothetical cases that are not yet before the court. "
From Occupied America, we can fight the power, but if Hardiman is the choice, he is a shoe-in and will garner three to five democratic votes as well.
In the end it wasn't so much that Judge Hardiman's working class background and now famous cab that he drove throughout law school that appealed to the President as much as it was the privileged and Bush/DC insider status that turned POTUS off to the front runner Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
What we known as of 4:26 PM EDST is that Judge Thomas Hardiman, of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, where he happens to serve with another Judge who happens to be the sister of POTUS, will be nominated to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Judge Kavanaugh didn't even make it to the top two. The runner-up this time around is conservative darling of the religious right- Judge Amy Barrett. But it was Senator McConnell (R-no morals, ideals, or principals) who warned Trump off of Judge Barrett, telling the President that her right wing religious views would lose at least three Republican senators votes which would be more than enough to defeat the Judge.
The President is notoriously (stupid, feckless) fickle, could change his mind (or what acts as his mind) in the next few hours. But as of now, the White House is preparing to roll out Judge Hardiman, a reliably conservative vote in the manner of Justice Alito-but less so- in the 9PM TV extravaganza.
Johnny- tell our contestant what he has won.
"Judge Hardman. Congratulations! You have won an all expense paid relocation to Washington, DC, where you will be given chambers at the spacious Supreme Court located in our nations capital. You will be given a lifetime appointment and will receive your salary to the day you die. You will work from later September through June, and will be able to schedule your summer months with lucrative teaching positions in England, Germany, Australia, or Spain to name but a few of the countries that have universities that will bid for your services.
But wait! There's more! You will receive a spacious chambers with room for clerks who will read the records, read the briefs, and write your first drafts. You will be invited to lunch by Justice Clarence Thomas where he will regale you with tales of what he is texting during oral argument.
All of this, and more can be yours Judge Hardiman, if you just go to the Senate and refuse to answer any questions about overturning Roe v. Wade with the response that you cannot comment on hypothetical cases that are not yet before the court. "
From Occupied America, we can fight the power, but if Hardiman is the choice, he is a shoe-in and will garner three to five democratic votes as well.
MORE PUBLICITY
More publicity for the best legal blog around (yawn).
Now its the local DBR tagging on to our ground breaking, Pulitzer Prize worthy stories about judicial candidate Elena Ortega-Tauler.
Here is the link but you have to pay them money, or just read this blog for free.
Now its the local DBR tagging on to our ground breaking, Pulitzer Prize worthy stories about judicial candidate Elena Ortega-Tauler.
Here is the link but you have to pay them money, or just read this blog for free.
Sunday, July 08, 2018
SO YOU SAY YOU WANT TO BE A BLOGGER
Favourite legal movies...
Rumpole's: "The Verdict." Paul Newman. Miles O'Shea. Jack Warden. James Mason as Ed Concannon the villainous insurance defense attorney-opposing counsel. Paul Newman calls him a "good man" and Warden responds "A good man? He's the prince of fucking darkness. He'll have a dozen people testifying they saw her water-skiing last weekend." Newman's client is in a coma having been given the wrong anesthesia because the doctor mis-read the admitting form. A legal Rocky story.
David O. Markus's Fav: "A few Good Men". Rumor has it he watches it on the eve of every trial.
So you say you want to be a blogger? Enjoy the fame and fortune and the blogging groupies that follow The Captain around posting on Snap-Chat his every move?
Well now you can.
Rumpole is off next month to parts unknown. Not England, fair England, she of Wi-fi access in every Pub and Pret-a-Manger.
But places like, perhaps Everest, where there's a motor-cycle tour up to and near the bottom base camp. Or, perhaps, the boarder of Thailand and Laos, where once upon a time in a previous century, a young Rumpole wrote movingly of the battles of the Hmong against the Communist.
Or even the Kamchatka Peninsula, where a dip in the Sea of Okhotsk could restore a battered blogger's soul.
The point is we are not expecting internet access. We will not be blogging about the pedestrian effluence of our REGJB, the comings and goings of Judges, and lawyers, and defendants and jurors.
Can you fill the void? Can you step up, like Lou Gehrig did and make Rumpole a modern day Wally Pip? Maybe fame and fortune await. Life doesn't present many opportunities. This could be one.
Apply within.
Howardroark21@gmail.com.
Rumpole's: "The Verdict." Paul Newman. Miles O'Shea. Jack Warden. James Mason as Ed Concannon the villainous insurance defense attorney-opposing counsel. Paul Newman calls him a "good man" and Warden responds "A good man? He's the prince of fucking darkness. He'll have a dozen people testifying they saw her water-skiing last weekend." Newman's client is in a coma having been given the wrong anesthesia because the doctor mis-read the admitting form. A legal Rocky story.
David O. Markus's Fav: "A few Good Men". Rumor has it he watches it on the eve of every trial.
So you say you want to be a blogger? Enjoy the fame and fortune and the blogging groupies that follow The Captain around posting on Snap-Chat his every move?
Well now you can.
Rumpole is off next month to parts unknown. Not England, fair England, she of Wi-fi access in every Pub and Pret-a-Manger.
But places like, perhaps Everest, where there's a motor-cycle tour up to and near the bottom base camp. Or, perhaps, the boarder of Thailand and Laos, where once upon a time in a previous century, a young Rumpole wrote movingly of the battles of the Hmong against the Communist.
Or even the Kamchatka Peninsula, where a dip in the Sea of Okhotsk could restore a battered blogger's soul.
The point is we are not expecting internet access. We will not be blogging about the pedestrian effluence of our REGJB, the comings and goings of Judges, and lawyers, and defendants and jurors.
Can you fill the void? Can you step up, like Lou Gehrig did and make Rumpole a modern day Wally Pip? Maybe fame and fortune await. Life doesn't present many opportunities. This could be one.
Apply within.
Howardroark21@gmail.com.
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