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Edit: By which I mean, if the evidence already in the record doesn't persuade the First Department of the correctness or Judge Engoron's ruling about the valuation of Mar-a-Lago, an anecdote about Mr. Hankey isn't going to fix it.

Details of the court's decision were apparently sealed, apart from this summary: Effective April 1, 2022, the Circuit Court of Prince William County revoked Jonathon Alden Moseley’s license to practice law in the Commonwealth for violating professional rules that govern safekeeping property; meritor...

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:30 pm Stacy.

A friend? Family?

There is a totally bizarre procedural rule in California courts that gives litigants a single opportunity to demand a new judge without giving any reason for it. I suspect that's what's going on here.

Don't forget the vig! Letter sent from tfg campaign: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018e-ed56-dff0-a7de-fd7e8f970000 Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump's name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations...

That makes me wonder why the prosecutor would be OK with a lawyer on the jury, let alone TWO. As you probably know, lawyers used to be automatically exempt from jury service, at least in the jurisdictions with which I am familiar. But those exemptions were eliminated decades ago, and trial lawyers ...

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:40 pm

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:55 pm

trump's legal team believes a lot of stupid shit.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love your way with the english language...

Mueller She Wrote, who is not a lawyer or a consistently reliable lay researcher, isn't paying enough attention here. Knight Specialty doesn't claim to be "registered" with ELANY. It argues that it "meets ELANY's requirements for excess line eligibility," relying on the 6/10/21 l...

And this one, from @dj1985_ Okay, starting to get a little nervous here. But my faith is still strong. Managed to sell some plasma over the weekend and buy in a few more shares. Anybody else stilling hanging tuff? Who's got the stone to buy this latest discount pricing. I hope it's a troll, but Poe'...

I missed this from last night: https://twitter.com/DaveKingman8/status/1780076070890324364 Dave Kingman, Esq. @DaveKingman8 I have a headache trying to read the world salad on p. 6 of their brief, referring to financial guaranty insurance (which is a separate kind of insurance having nothing to do w...

And we're under 24 and down 10 percent before 11:00 am.

23.84 down 2.77 (-10.41%)

Nice brisk start for the morning:

24.73, down 1.88 (-7.07%)

This post, referring to the 10 percent rule for surety companies, is interesting: https://twitter.com/foolintheforest/status/1780078227026833521 George Wallace @foolintheforest The NY reg sounds like a pretty standard rule. In California, we allow both admitted insurers (licensed in CA) and non-admi...

Serio also doesn't address the issue of the New York law that limits how much money state-regulated surety companies can post on a single bond to 10 percent of what’s referred to as the firm’s total “capital and surplus.” I understand their legal argument to be that the law doesn't apply to them, si...

Gregory Serio, the former Superintendent of Insurance who provided the expert affirmation, does seem to be the real deal as far as expertise goes, having spent much of his career in various capacities at the NYS Department of Insurance (now the Department of Financial Services). However Serio's lega...

I gather that NYS heavily regulates "admitted" casualty and life insurance companies, which do such a large volume of business that rates and contractual terms are set in reference to actuarial analysis of prior experience. Out-of-state surplus line companies handle risks that the admitted...

On the other hand, it could also be a sign of inner rot. The surety guy is on it. https://twitter.com/DaveKingman8/status/1780076681820004451 Dave Kingman, Esq. @DaveKingman8 Almost the entire legal discussion is wrong. And I don't how their expert -- a former Superintendent of Insurance -- submits ...

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1780074847286047181 southpaw @nycsouthpaw + it took about ten seconds from opening the account security agreement to find a significant drafting error, which makes the signature page look like it belongs to a different agreement (DJT Jr’s attestation identifie...

The attorney filing this appears to be a full-on SovCit anti-vax nutjob with all the usual warning signs. Thanks JPC. All the usual warning signs indeed. Here's footnote No. 1 from the 2021 decision, Stone v. Austin . According to the Complaint, “PLAINTIFF HOUSE OF STONE 76” an independent sovereig...

I've copied the first five paragraphs of the brief. Note that the OCR is a little wonky; there may be inaccuracies. In short, they argue that it's OK for surplus line companies to write surety bonds (note that "Dave Kingman, Esq." said that it's not, but perhaps this is an obscure corner o...

Hmm, aggressive. They're proceeding by order to show cause for an order justifying the bond instead of by regular motion and also seeking costs, claiming that the NYAG's exception was "unnecessary." However, to be fair, preceding by order to show cause is the usual way to ask the judge to ...

A New York attorney who may shortly be having some uncomfortable discussions with the disciplinary committee has filed a motion with supporting papers to vacate the judgment entered by Judge Engoron. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=mqVGGiCGhU/ss9kcgfcT_PLUS_Q== This wil...

Thanks!