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Special Docket For Special Folks
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Some people are treated differently (make that much better) than others by our court system. A USAToday Blog discussion of the special treatment for special folks was set off by the discovery of a secret docket in South Florida.
South Florida's secret divorces revealed
"Any divorce that lands in court goes on the public record -- except the divorces of some judges, elected officials and other big shots, whose cases are hidden on a secret docket in Broward courts."The story lands on the Miami Herald's front page this morning after the paper sued to get details on the secret records. How secret? Not only are the contents of the cases not public, but the very existence of the cases is hidden as well, the paper says. It's a county-news story, but in a nation with plenty of divorces, the Herald places the story in a bigger context.
"The use of a secret docket in the first place goes against the basic tenet that courts should be open to the public," the story says. "But the high-profile names on the docket further raise the question of whether some people get special treatment and are spared the indignity of having the details of their divorces open to all eyes."
An earlier Herald story looked at more secret cases and found "Divorce, negligence, malpractice and fraud cases have all vanished into a kind of legal black hole...."
I'm keeping a secret list of judges, elected officials and other big shots who should be sent to live in a black hole.
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