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Category Archives: Law & Parody
Squawk is condemned
A couple of years ago we published “Are you a cissy?” , a spoof of a compulsory training inflicted on us by the boss’s wife who announced a mandatory policy of quizzing our clients about gender issues. On first contact, no … Continue reading
Posted in Law & Parody, Satirical cartoons
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Justice Thomas decries Court’s latest “defendant-always-wins” rule
Our company boss-persons recently decreed that the office’s 50-year archive of vintage appellate briefs must go. We sadly watched as giant blue bins were loaded to the brim with typewritten pre-computer gems of scholarship and advocacy, condemned to be recycled … Continue reading
Let’s make suppression hearings great again!
. . . even if they never were. (This is a re-creation. Yesterday’s post disappeared under mysterious circumstances after being published). Ever since Justice Frankfurter’s outraged account of the Sacco and Vanzetti case (a marvelous model brief on how … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal procedure, Judges, Law & Parody, Satirical cartoons
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Chief to judges: dissent at your own risk.
Does your boss stifle dissent? You’re not alone! The fearless Judge Saxe, retired from the First Department, reveals that Chief Judge Flowerpot refuses to let judges stay past retirement age if they’ve written too many unsuccessful dissents. Used to be that … Continue reading
Is a trial a search for the truth?
Every now and then, a judge will declare that a trial is “a search for the truth,” or, in one drunk driving case, a sober search for the truth. The judge continued, “In the search for truth, no man has yet … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal law, Law & Parody
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The solution to courtroom delays: hockey pucks
In a move to defend against school shootings, a Michigan college is distributing hockey pucks to its faculty. Hockey pucks, or biscuits, as they’re known to the cognoscenti, are “easy to carry, heavy and tend to cause a distraction when thrown,” explained … Continue reading
Posted in Judges, Law & Parody, Satirical cartoons
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How to keep your employees safe and happy: give them guns for Christmas
A Wisconsin glassware company has discovered the perfect Christmas gift for its employees: a gift certificate for a gun. “For us, now, we have an entire armed staff,” co-owner Ben Wolfgram told the Appleton Post-Crescent. “I think that’s pretty good.” … Continue reading
Posted in Law & Parody
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