"I Award You No Points, and May God Have Mercy on Your Soul."

To my friends in the media:

There's a little trial over somebody's damaged boat that may or may not start tomorrow in Judge Brown's courtroom.

Heard it could be interesting.

A few points arising from the eve-of-trial Halmos motion linked to above:

(1)  Could the process of consent to Magistrate jurisdiction truly be as depicted?

(2)  What to make of trying a case -- non jury -- after presiding over a confidential mediation of same?

(3) "[F]lamboyant grammatical form" (page 17)?

What on earth is he talking about?

Like I said, should be interesting.....