3d DCA Watch -- Judge Cortinas Goes Full Carnes!

 Hi kids, can you feel the winter break taking hold in your practice yet?

The lawyers coming in later, leaving earlier, judges cancelling hearing, depositions being moved to 2013....let's just slide into the holidays, shall we?

Only two civil opinions of note this week, let's take a look:

FIGA v. Karelas:

Yes, it's nearly 2013 and Judge Schwartz is still entering orders like it's disco-era 1978!

Galleon Bay v. Bd. of Cty. Comm:

Whose writing style does this opening paragraph remind you of:

When apt-named Galleon1 first set out to develop its property, it could not have possibly imagined the tumultuous seas it would encounter in the decades that followed. While galleons have not been spotted on our shores since the Eighteenth Century, this is our Court’s seventh encounter with this case.

The Judge went full Carnes!