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Wondering What Took Your Playstation So Long?

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Here’s a possible answer. From the Daily Business Review:

In unauthorized court order generated by a law clerk in a case before Chief U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno resulted in the suspension of shipments of older generation PlayStation consoles through Miami for three months.

The errant preliminary injunction dated last Oct. 24 granted more than Sony was requesting and contained typographical errors and apparent contradictions. It was withdrawn this month.

The order effectively stopped the defendants from moving Sony consoles and accessories through the Port of Miami for export to Latin America but also instructed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to “hold and preserve any and all goods bearing the PlayStation trademarks” at the port.

Customs agents applied the order to all companies importing PlayStation goods through the Port of Miami.

As for the law clerk in question, the DBR article identifies him:

According to numerous sources in the legal community, the law clerk who handled the order is Matthew Bohrer, son of prominent media lawyer Sanford Bohrer. Matthew Bohrer, whose clerkship is scheduled to end soon, is still listed as one of Moreno’s clerks on the Web site for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Bohrer did not return calls for comment before deadline. His father, a Miami partner with Holland & Knight in Miami who has represented the Review and other news media on First Amendment and other legal matters, had no comment.

More details, including excerpts from the rather odd order, over here.
The Judiciary: Unauthorized court order halts PlayStation shipments [Daily Business Review]

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