"Judge Gone Wild"

I am happy to report that Bellsouth/Cingular/SBC/AT&T wireless internet is quite fast in the DFW Holiday Inn.

Other than overcast skies and a ten degree drop in temperature, Hotel Row at DFW looks remarkably like Hotel Row at ATL or in any other big city. I've always liked the Dallas skyline but I won't see it this trip as my meetings are in Bedford, next door to the airport.

I'm watching Fox News, Greta Van Susteren. She doesn't apparently do a lot of preparation for her interviews. She interviewed Joe Francis, the man behind the Girls Gone Wild videos. Joe is on his way to Florida to turn himself into U.S. Marshals pursuant to a U.S. District Court warrant.

Joe got into a bit of trouble when seven under-aged girls sued him when their escapades were included in one of his videos.

Greta and Joe just couldn't get over that he was being sent to jail in connection with a civil case. Here's a hint for Greta next time she gets perplexed by a legal question: Google. The query "girls gone wild jail" brought up an ABC News story from last Thursday that explained that Joe had been found in contempt for failing to appear at an emergency hearing about his reneging on a settlement reached during a mediation. Most judges, especially federal judges, don't look kindly on that sort of behavior.

Greta was also perplexed when Joe said the Judge was putting him jail until he agreed to pay the plaintiffs more money. A bit of web surfing uncovered that the Judge has ordered Joe to pay the plaintiffs' lawyers' fees in connection with the hearing he didn't attend.

I guess Greta's to be forgiven as I'm sure she's distracted because there's a hearing tomorrow where Anna Nicole Smith's baby's DNA results will be announced. That was the lead story on the show, her head was probably still wrapped up in all of that.

Oh, the title of this post. Joe Francis had a good line in another interview about his take on the Judge in his case. He called him a "judge gone wild."