FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER (2013 version)

Oyez Oyez. Today is the first Monday in October. Hang on to your civil rights and keep a firm grip on the fourth and fifth amendments because friends, we're in a for a rough ride criminal defense wise. 

Update: Here is the NY Times Article about this year's docket.

On the docket for arguments this week, we have some campaign finance coming your way with an hour of oral argument on Tuesday. What's that you say? The Federal Government is shut down? Not the Supreme Court, which is open for business regardless of what congress does or says. 



Because it's Monday, and because we expect the news out of Washington DC to continue to be depressing, legal and otherwise, we continue with our series of Texts from a lawyer, with today's installment a series of texts between Lenny and his secretary Zoe: 

FOOTBALL: No one dropped out of the survivor pool Sunday, although DOM squeaked by with the Broncos with a late Romo INT and a Bronco FG. A few players have the Falcons over the Jets tonight so there's still a chance we lose some players. Otherwise this might be the first weekend in a long time with this many players and no one going out. 

Picks wise- going into the late Sunday night game we were 5 for 5, giving you the winners in Bengals over the cheaters, Colts over Seahawks, Ravens over Fins plus the over 43 in the game, and the Cowboys at +7 who lost by three. In our picks we gave you the outright winners of two games where the undefeated teams (cheaters and Seahawks)  lost.  Our $ystem work$. 

E IS FOR EASY

To start off your Monday with a smile, we present our second installment of "Texts From a Lawyer" (changed from Sunday's title "Texts from a solo-practitioner".  Our enterprising reader explains that "Lenny" is a solo-practitioner and Zoe is his sarcastic secretary. 

E IS FOR EASY AND E-FILING
For those of us who venture into Fed land and/or handle appeals, E-Filing is now old hat and we wonder how did we ever get along without it? 

And last week Broward went "ALL-E"- and word is that if you dare walk up to the clerk's office with a piece of paper the deputies will draw down on you, take you to the ground, confiscate your paper and jail you like a dirty dog. 

And in Miami-Dade? All is as it ever was. Our E-Motto is "last in the state and damn proud of it."  The Supreme Court granted the Dade clerk's motion for a continuance and we won't have E-filing until February, 2014, or until the Federal Government re-opens after the shut down, whichever comes last. 

The scene: A law office in Two Egg Florida (Which is a real town in our state btw). 

Jake (putting some straw between his teeth while removing his straw hat and straightening his seersucker suit) :"Hey Billy-Bob, you hear dem boys down Miami way still don't have E-filing?"

Billy-Bob: (sitting at a computer in his overalls) "Why in dagnation can't them yankees in Miami get their E-filing set? Must be some commie agents from Castro done infiltrated their clerk's office." 

Jake: "You file that writ of coram nobis with the supreme court?"
Bill-Bob: (typing on a computer screen) "Doing it as we speak big hoss."

In Miami, we're still licking stamps. 

See You In Court.