Judge Seitz Strikes Defendant's Pleadings And Other News.

Order Striking Pleadings


Hi kids, I guess what I love best about South Florida is the lovely weather!

Well, that and Glenn Garvin.

And while we all know Garvin lives in the past, who knew it was way back in the 1930s:

A packed courtroom watched as defense attorneys Bruce Lehr and Roberto Pertierra acted as Capone’s trusted two-man team, originally former Broward Circuit Judge Vincent C. Giblin and J. Fritz Gordon.

On the other side were Miami-Dade prosecutors Charlie Johnson and Howard Rosen, acting as County Solicitor G.E. McCaskill and Special Assistant County Solicitor Richard H. Hunt.

The jury, which included Miami Herald columnist Glenn Garvin and Daily Business Review executive editor Eddie Dominguez, listened as the attorneys presented their cases, mostly improvised.

"Mostly improvised," huh -- just like Glenn's columns!

Kudos all around, what a great idea and a fine way of marking the Court's centennial.

In other news, Julie Kay does a nice curtain-raiser on the Potamkin divorce battle, which pits A.J. Barranco and Barry Wayne against Maurice Kutner and Cynthia Greene.

Finally, Judge Seitz strikes a defendant's pleadings in a hotly contested family business dispute in which the defendant allegedly hacked the plaintiff's email files.

The Order is posted above.

Stay dry folks!

Wine and Women

That's pretty much the takeaway from Susannah Nesmith's profile of A.J. Barranco, the incorrigible bachelor who turned an old bomb shelter into a make out pad, ala Donald Fagen's New Frontier:

In addition to women, Barranco is fond of wine—he retrofitted a 1960s bomb shelter under his home as a wine cellar and bar, decorated with World War I recruiting posters from Europe and a sleek red leather couch.

That actually sounds kinda neat.

Susannah even snagged a quote from a sitting federal judge:

Federal District Judge Ursula Ungaro first met Barranco when she was on the state circuit bench. She considers him a friend and hired him to represent her in her own divorce. “He has a reputation for being a bulldog and for representing women very aggressively,” she said. “There are probably men, both in this community and elsewhere, who don’t particularly like him because he was so forceful against them.”

Probably?

Boy, there's something in the air.

Was it Julie Andrews who sang in Camelot about the "Lusty Month of May"?

Or maybe it's just me?