What better way to guest write an appellate opinion than to open with a quote from Roald Dahl’s “The BFG”? At least, that was Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Alexander Bokor’s thinking when he ruled on a property dispute with a “long and winding history” Wednesday.

“The witching hour … was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves,” the opinion began. “But that’s just fantasy. Surely, there can be nothing hiding in the dark for a prepared litigant in a lawsuit that complies with deadlines. That is, of course, assuming deadlines are followed and matters are pursued with diligence. None of that happened here.”

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