We came across this case in our work on an esoteric issue. And as long time and careful readers of the blog know, we love a good Churchill quote.
SCHWARTZ, ALAN R., Associate Judge.
As Churchill might have put it had he been considering the fascinating and monumental verities of Florida post-trial procedural law and practice rather than merely the prosaic question of Chinese politics, the result we reach in this case represents an incongruity arising out of an imbroglio and caused by an anomaly. The incongruity lies in the fact that the parties are required to undergo a new trial even though the plaintiff has now agreed to an order, secured by the defendant, and affirmed by us, which reduces his judgment as a condition of Avoiding such a trial. The anomaly is the peculiarity of the Florida law which permits a full appeal from an essentially interlocutory order only in the case of an order granting a new trial. The imbroglio occurred in this manner:
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Sorry to piss on your cornflakes but, Alan was rather rude and offensive to many. He was also very, very smart and made some great decisions when he refrained from turning his chair around while you were talking.
SAO needs more support staff. Running on 40% is unacceptable. If there’s no budget then an oversight committee needs to audit the appropriations.
I remember when I was a young apd watching Jack Denaro’s try a case in front of Schwartz when Denaro asked the court permission to reserve his opening. Schwartz disallowed it. Denaro delivered it but u could tell he was pissed. The verdict was not guilty. I would put Schwartz in the semi precious gem stone category as a trial judge.
Schwartz was no treasure. He was not a nice human being. That makes him a zero in my book.
He was a brilliant jurist.
Rump stop delaying the comments.
No he was not.
I think that the College Football season should start two weeks after the Super Bowl. More total months to watch football over the year, no competition between the NFL & NCAA and more money for all. Also we don’t have a dry spell from mid February till August .
". . .was rather rude and offensive to many." He was rude to everyone.
Hmmm, three words pop into my head: rude, arrogant, and mean.
He’s not only delaying them. He’s censoring based on more than just mean words. The desperately needed change is not only at the SAO.
All of the repeated support SAO support staff statistics are interesting and coming from an SAO insider. Quite a bit of SAO support staff don’t care, are incompetent or cover up for ASAs not doing their jobs or not showing up at the office to work several days a week. Let’s see who’s not coming to the office over the past 90 days.
You talking about a Specialized Unit Division Chief?
SAO chiefs?
Read the JQC complaint about him and maybe you would not have written this post.....
Or maybe he just has a JOB and a FAMILY and posts comments after he handles both.
Any intellectual accomplishments would have been greatly eclipsed by how rude and mean he was It’s a good thing he was robed otherwise he would have had the shit kicked out of him
Yeah, he was a beast. But he made me a better lawyer. I always prepare for argument as though a beast might bite my head. And if Schwartz was wrong, you could bite back hard.
By the time I started practicing, he was already on the 3rd. But he came back later in to sit as a senior judge in family. Not a nice guy. Was very disrespectful to attorneys and I can only imagine what he did to pro se litigants. Just unnecessary what he did.
Schwartz chose his legacy while he was alive. Smart guy who distinguished himself by being an uncommon asshole. You don’t make enough of an intellectual contribution to the law as a state appellate judge to have anything you do outweigh your personal characteristics-and I suspect 99 percent of people who knew him would agree that his personal characteristics sucked.
I saw Alex Michaels get a not guilty from him after a bench trial with closing argument delivered while the arraignments were pending. If you were prepared and had a good argument, he was the best judge in the world. He was also an astute critic of steak houses. The man loved fine things and despised mediocrity including lawyers and cases.
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