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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFirst sentence of one of the 3rd Circuit amicus briefs is damn near perfect.
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Mike Dunford
@questauthority
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Nov 24, 2020
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And I just got to the start of the brief, and the first citation, and - @j_remy_green -
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Mike Dunford
@questauthority
This is absolutely perfect.
It's the kind of thing that might be over the top if it came from one of the parties, but an amicus can sometimes do things a party can't - and this is one of those times.
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I now feel my 27 year legal career was incomplete because I never cited Monty Python.
happybird
(4,603 posts)I didnt expect that.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Nevilledog
(51,064 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,119 posts)MontanaMama
(23,302 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)PutGramaOnThePhone
(236 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)calimary
(81,194 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)"The attorneys for the President of the United States should not need three last chances to coherently state a cause of action. See Monty Pythons Flying Circus: The Spanish Inquisition (BBC television broadcast Sept. 22, 1970). Yet, apparently, that third, last chance is all they seek from this Court."
MissB
(15,805 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)Attorneys needing 3 last chances shouldn't be representing presidents of the United States, and persons hiring said lawyers should not be president of the United States.
MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)and had an opening page with this quote:
"How come stealing from one book is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research?" - A.E. Newman
The prof. gave me an "A" but wrote, "Who is A.E. Newman?"
"What, me worry?"
erronis
(15,222 posts)but perhaps I didn't, really.
A nice history paper made by translating chapters from another language into "original" research? Probably my only "A" but a comment about stilted language....
ResistantAmerican17
(3,798 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)No one ever does!
On an unrelated note, I'm watching a lot of anime lately. ha
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)crickets
(25,960 posts)Well done and thank you, Judge Brann. That was amazing. 🤗
jmbar2
(4,871 posts)They even list Monty Python in the official "Table of Authorities".
FM123
(10,053 posts)I think in the next brief they will mention three wishes - from the genie lamp in Aladdin....
eleny
(46,166 posts)I know, an obscure reference. But it would solve all our problems.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)Nevilledog
(51,064 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,708 posts)BMW2020RT
(139 posts)dalton99a
(81,433 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,318 posts)volstork
(5,399 posts)Could be resting.
Ms. Toad
(34,059 posts)But it was a running contest among the judicial clerks in the state appellate court where I worked to work the name of a dog into the opinion. . . That and citing the "oak tree case" (the handwritten note on the spine of a reporter in my judge's office) on home rule.
Gilbert Moore
(218 posts)I now feel my 27 year legal career was incomplete because I never cited Monty Python.
And you can sleep at night ?