“I have to tell you something. I have lawyers in here that don’t sleep because of the weight of the cases that they handle, and they do not do what you’re doing,” Streitfeld said before taking a five-minute recess. “You better get your act together.”

Jacobs was admonished again when he had the audacity to interrupt bank attorney Heidi Weinzetl while she made remarks to the judge he found unsettling. Judge Streitfeld continued, “If you two do this one more minute, you’re going to spend the weekend in a very uncomfortable place.” He continued, “That’s just not what we do. We don’t do that, and you don’t do that. She was responding to my question.” It is no big mystery that the judge sided with the lender who had no more evidence of standing than if someone with a copy of the note and a fake indorsement walked into the courtroom and laid claim to the home.”