Somehow Big Willie was able to break through the nomination gridlock:
The Senate voted unanimously Thursday for Ferrer, a one-time federal prosecutor in Miami and senior aide to former Attorney General Janet Reno. He most recently oversaw federal litigation for the Miami-Dade County Attorney's Office.
Congrats!!
Speaking of gridlock, judicial and other nominations remain in secret limbo:
Even if there was merit in that argument, how does two wrongs make a right? At what point does the health of the nation's judiciary matter to our elected representatives?
Finally, for those arbitration junkies out there, the Senate is negotiating today S. 3217, the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010” which will be on the Senate floor for a vote Monday. The bill would limit or prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer and investment contracts.
No word on whether "selling of soul" clauses would be permissible, though the folks in DC probably would have a conflict of interest on that one anyways.
Speaking of gridlock, judicial and other nominations remain in secret limbo:
McCaskill said a total of about 80 nominees have passed through various committees without objection but have been held up on the Senate floor by various GOP senators who are trying to use them as bargaining chips.I know swlip -- BORK BORK BORK! -- but this is out of hand.
Even if there was merit in that argument, how does two wrongs make a right? At what point does the health of the nation's judiciary matter to our elected representatives?
Finally, for those arbitration junkies out there, the Senate is negotiating today S. 3217, the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010” which will be on the Senate floor for a vote Monday. The bill would limit or prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer and investment contracts.
No word on whether "selling of soul" clauses would be permissible, though the folks in DC probably would have a conflict of interest on that one anyways.
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ST boycott in effect.
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Learn it. Live it.
11:39, you're a jackass.
11:39, Other than being a jackass, what are you trying to accomplish?
An unprecedented financial crisis afflicting the nation's largest court system is in the hands of the policy making California Judicial Council, with Los Angeles court officials awaiting its decision on their plea for an infusion of cash.
The Los Angeles court system has already closed 17 courtrooms and another 50 will be shut down come September unless something is done to find more money. The closures have disrupted everything from divorce and custody proceedings to traffic ticket disputes.
The judicial council scheduled a meeting Friday to deal with the request from presiding Superior Court Judge Charles W. McCoy Jr. to divert $47 million in funds from the courthouse construction budget to help stave off more courtroom closings and staff layoffs.
McCoy predicts chaos and a logjam of civil and family law cases if additional funds are not found.
He said the Los Angeles court's budgetary shortfall is $133 million which will be permanent each year unless there is an influx of funds from somewhere.
The Los Angeles system has already laid off 329 workers – about 6 percent of its 5,400-person work force. About 500 more jobs are at risk later this year. McCoy raised the prospect of a cumulative cut of 1,800 people from the 5,400-member work force over two and a half years.
With resulting cutbacks in services, he said, "confidence in the courts would be lost."
"It's unprecedented," said McCoy. "Even during the Great Depression we did not close down court operations. We kept the courts open."
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Did you SEE the size of Nurik's fake chompers, in his pictures in the DBR???
Can you imagine the crud that gets stuck in there during his lunch feeding?
I wouldn't buy a used Audi 5000 CS from the guy.
I love the Rothstein/Nurik/Gardiner front page photo montage (that's french) on the cover of the DBR.
NB SFL - did you have a hand in that?
(The montage, not Gardiner. Gardiner's removal, I mean.)
re J & J. See 404 So.2d 1098
I'm calling it a Shumie.
I don't care if you are protesting this blog. The Shumie has caught my sails and I am going to go down and enjoy a nice one this Shum Shum Shumie of an afternoon.
Shumie Time!
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