SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE BAR

 This one is troubling. 

There was a trial in Northern Florida (Orange County Ninth Circuit Motto: "We ain't liberal Miami y'all and ninth is better than eleventh") in which an African American Doctor sued over his dismissal on grounds it was race related. He won. The jury awarded him 2.75 million. The trial judge reversed the verdict and dismissed the case.  Such is life in some parts of the US. Perhaps it was well founded in law. Perhaps it was not. 

MEMO TO BAR: WE ARE NOT CRITCIZING THE JUDGE 

Then a lawyer reposted on her social media account other posts criticizing the judge and calling for his removal. 

And your Florida Bar moved to sanction her. The referee agreed that she distributed false information about a member of the judiciary. Attached is the referee findings and the Amicus brief of the ACLU. 

What do you think of this?

Oh wait- it's a Northern Florida   issue. What do y'all think about this? Meet at the Piggly Wiggly to discuss. 

When we write that DeSantis appointed judges are latte sipping, balls and strikes calling drones who will do anything to write an order stating that the motion is denied because it is the function of the legislature and not the judiciary to make such policy decisions so that they catch the eye of the federalist society, are we headed for a bar complaint? Will the ACLU help us? Will Mr. Markus defend us?  Or are we doomed? 

What about when we repost the Kardashians?  What if a local judge owned a restaurant and we ate at it and called it worse than sewer swill and that anyone who owned such an establishment was lower than a pig in a poke?  Would the Bar come after us? Or just the NY Times Restaurant critic? 

Report of Referee - Brooke Girley by Anonymous PbHV4H on Scribd

ACLU BRIEF

ACLU Amicus by Anonymous PbHV4H on Scribd