I don't know, I'm starting to get sick of writing about the law all the time. Are you folks getting sick of reading about it?

A friend passed along Judge Tjoflat's recent spankdown of Judge Cooke the other day. My reaction -- why be so personal? You don't agree with her ruling, fine, but no one needs to go overboard or embarrass anyone, particularly when you are in a position of power as an appellate court. It's just not necessary.

(Judge Schwartz, are you listening?)

And another friend passed along this spankdown of Tom Tew and Rachlin Cohen -- what the hail?

I guess Tom is the Receiver and was trying to get Rachlin paid for some tax work, but it kinda went off the rails, big time.

The opinion needs to be read in full, but this snippet gives you a flavor:

Through emails, memoranda, revised, re-revised, and thrice-revised invoices, the Receiver and Rachlin offered a stream of unresponsive and obsfucatory answers to the Monitor's inquiries reminiscent of the "Who's on First?" Abbott and Costello comedy routine.

Oy.

The opinion ends with a finding of an actual conflict of interest and a strongly worded show cause order.

Maybe my age is showing, but I don't recall that bit in the Abbott and Costello routine.

Anyone remember that old arrest involving UM Law Professor D. Marvin Jones?

The one everyone told me they already knew about and I was such a schmuck for not being clued in?

Yep, that one.

Well as David reports here, and our friend Guest Blogger at MaL does too, the ole' Perfesser has decided to go pro se and sue AboveTheLaw in Miami federal court!

You can read the complaint here, which is pending before Judge Cooke.

ATL's prior coverage on Professor Jones is collected here.

Call me crazy, but this one's easy; I have a feeling you don't even have to go all-Iqbal-chronic to make it fade away.

See, Arlen Specter was right -- Conley v. Gibson works just fine.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled Scott Rothstein programming.

UPDATE: Here's a fantastic analysis of the glaring deficiencies in Professor Jones' complaint by lawyer/blogger Ben Sheffner.

Well, not quite (it's kinda my version of the "CASTRO ALMOST DEAD" teasers the Herald has been feeding readers every couple of months for the last decade or so).

Still, as David says, let's hope the feds dismiss the rest of the case.

Nice opinion by Judge Barkett, which concludes that Judge Cooke's opinion below was "eminently correct."

Indeed.