3d DCA Watch -- Now With More 1REV/REM 9!

First off, some sad news out of the bunker:

On September 13, 2012, Alan Sadowski, Marshal of the Third District Court of Appeal passed away. Mr. Sadowski ably served as Deputy Marshal and then as Marshal of the Court for over nine years. The Court wishes to acknowledge his dedication and service to the Court. He will be greatly missed.

RIP.

In other news, the bunker has decided to enter the Twitter age with a new column next to the reported opinion that attempts to convey important information of some type in LOL-style shorthand!

Observe:

BRADY V. P3 GROUP & HYPOWER  1REV/REM 9

Was that helpful?

There's also this:

ADEEB & ADEEB V. MORGAN & MORGAN 1AFF/REV 2

Do I even need to discuss the opinion or should I just tweet "1/AFF/REV 2"?

We also have Bruce Baldwin, plaintiff, reported thusly:

1AFF 8

Roughly translated: not so good for Bruce.

CUL8R!!

Spotted -- Former British PM Gordon Brown and Bruce Baldwin!

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a busy man -- between angling to be head of the IMF to being denied entry to Burma to stopping Steve Jobs from being Knighted.

Yet despite all that he had time to stop off at a local Macy's yesterday.

And, like millions of other sun-worshiping South Florida visitors, Brown did the obligatory tourist thing and posed for a picture with my buddy Bruce Baldwin.

Congratulations, Mr. Brown, for knocking another item off your bucket list! 

What is Bruce Baldwin's Game Plan?

I read the paper this morning about Judge Bailey's ruling in the secret lotto case:

A Miami-Dade judge on Thursday said the wife of a lottery winner cannot go forward with a lawsuit against her husband until she can provide a legal argument to support her claim for half of his jackpot.

''She has no identifiable legal rights at this time,'' Circuit Judge Jennifer D. Bailey said. ``Where does the law say you automatically have a right to participate in the proceeds?''

Bailey dismissed temporarily the lawsuit Donna Campbell filed against her husband, Arnim Ramdass, an American Airlines mechanic who hit a $19 million Florida Lotto jackpot last summer with 16 of his co-workers.

Campbell and her attorneys have 20 days to amend their complaint. They will try to prove that the money Ramdass used to buy the lottery ticket came from his work salary, which is considered a marital asset.

''It appears that once we do that, we can go forward and get a trial date and proceed with vindicating Ms. Campbell's rights,'' attorney Bruce Baldwin said after Thursday's hearing.

Hold on there Bruce -- that's an awfully rosy picture you're painting.

Can someone help me understand why Bruce is suing for fraud before Judge Bailey instead of going after the money as a marital asset in divorce court? Judge Bailey herself raised the issue:

''I'm not sure she has the ability in this court -- civil court -- to stop her husband from disposing of the lottery money,'' Bailey said.

Has Bruce sought to enjoin the husband from disposing of the lottery money, or sought to deposit the funds into the court registry? Anyone with some insight on this please email me or post your thoughts.