Bloggers? Well, Maybe Not So Much

In the Magnolia City, visiting individuals who would be aggregated with me in many tax contexts, I thought I’d mosey down to the Bob Casey Courthouse at 515 Rusk Avenue and give a look-see to Courtroom 7006, where this week STJ Lewis (The Right Spelling) Carluzzo is adjudicating.

Well, standing in the hushed corridors, reminiscent of Alain Resnais’ “les salles, vaste, enorme, silent”, I wondered if STJ Lew and company had decamped. Not only “never is heard/ a discouraging word” on this range, there were no words at all at 9:00 a.m., CST.

So, knocking on the clerk’s door, I was able to ascertain that the trial, scheduled for a date and time certain to correspond with my presence, would not take place, as the parties had settled.

Wouldn’t it be loverly if Tax Court calendars, appropriately updated, were available online? I might suggest this at the judicial conference next May.

Judges like settlements. So do lawyers. But bloggers looking for copy? Maybe not so much.