Category: Etc.
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Free Parking – Is the new Miami juvenile courthouse really more accessible?
Alan Mishael has been up to some provocateuring for justice with his Request for Information on Free or Reduced-Rate Parking For Volunteers and Poor People at the New Juvenile Courthouse, and the AOC’s soon-to-be-famous response of “let them valet.” I am very excited about the new courthouse. I have never missed an opportunity to point…
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Fixing shelter representation
One of my three readers wrote separately to note that the 72-hour hearing is not the only possible solution to the shelter representation requirement. The reader reports that Broward defense attorneys take turns doing shelter duty. All shelters are handled by one judge for the week, and attorneys rotate being present for them. That’s an…
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Happy Mothers Day!
This Mothers Day lets also remember that the parties are still briefing the Dual Maternity case in the Florida Supreme Court. The docket is here. My understanding is that the Answer Brief has been filed and will show up soon.
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Dependency and TPR Appellate Briefs Should be Public
The case below reinforces my strongly held belief that the appellate briefs (not the full record, however) in dependency and TPR cases should be public. The briefs are already redacted and the opinions publish much of the same information found in the briefs. There’s no reason to keep them hidden. It only serves to prevent…
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When every leaf is a flower
Autumn started on the 23rd. It was a lazy end of summer, little going on, not even any substantive or ridiculous appellate opinions (except for the one about spanking as domestic violence, which I haven’t gotten to yet). It’s as if the dependency system has stabilized a bit, a finally–if temporarily–well-oiled machine. I know that’s…
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In the Academy
We had to say one thing we were proud of and the others had to practice being supportive and congratulatory. The turn came to me. I said, “This is hard, I’ve been raised not to brag about myself.” He, on tenure track, laughed: “Haha, you’ll never make it in the academy.” I laughed back, “That’s…
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First Class
The students start a week from yesterday, and we’re busily getting ready, sweeping out the dust bunnies and making sure we have sufficient construction paper and scissors. When I was in kindergarten I remember very clearly losing all of my crayons except the red one. I borrowed one kid’s yellow and another kid’s blue to…