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Saturday, May 30, 2026

WOOPS I & II & III

WOOPS I 

 Distracted driving or distracted enforcement? 

Cop stops woman for distracted driving, seeing her with a phone in her right hand. Uno momento por favor! Woman does not  have a right hand. 

Now what? 

She got a ticket. After careful reflection they moved to dismiss it.  This video is all over social media (so we are informed).




WOOPS II 
WARNING NSFW APPELLATE DISSENT 

The dissent from Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence Van Dyke starts like this (no foolin):
"This is a case about swinging dicks..."   And the judge is not referring to police officers on tires hanging from ropes.  The "dick dissent"  (as it will surely now be known forever more) starts on page 56 (no puns on if it's a big dissent or not, although it is often said size matters and beauty is in the eye of the  be-holder)  if you want to scroll down. The entire opinion and other dissents criticizing Judge Van Dick's Dyke's language is also worth a read (as Mr. Markus and his firm are surely doing). 


Ninth Circuit 23-4031 by Anonymous PbHV4H


WOOPS III 

Our own (and Blog Fav)  SDFL Judge Kathleen Williams just said "not so fast cowboy" and granted an order from thirty-five former federal judges to re-open the IRS/Trump lawsuit based on some obscure federal court civil rule ( FYI- all federal civil rules are obscure to us) allowing the court to investigate frauds on the court. The failing NY Times leads the reporting here. 


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You cannot quit! No one can comment on the pending legal issues of the day like you. I've read multiple reports about Judge Van Dyke's dissent and none of them were as enjoyable as yours. Just one more year? Please???