Is this the finest legal judgement ever written?
I believe it is - it starts off quite dry but descends into a scathing attack on both lawyers, including the suggestion that "Plaintiff's counsel not to run with a sharpened writing utensil in hand — he could put his eye out."
http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document073001.shtml
Cheered me up on a Friday afternoon anyway.
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It could only happen in America
Loved it - a rare sense of humour.
Laughed till I cried - Wonderful
Especially enjoyed this bit....
"Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation. Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact — complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words — to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. Whatever actually occurred, the Court is now faced with the daunting task of deciphering their submissions.
With Big Chief tablet readied, thick black pencil in hand, and a devil-may-care laugh in the face of death, life on the razor's edge sense of exhilaration, the Court begins..."
Thanks for sharing that with the group