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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 08:55 AM
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Lyrical US judge's poetic ruling
BBC News

An American judge has proved that even the law can be lyrical.
Ruling on a case of medical malpractice being heard in New York, Judge Roberto Gigante parodied one of The Beatles' most famous love songs, "Something".

On trial was doctor Gil Lederman, famous for having asked dying Beatle George Harrison, the song's author, to sign a guitar for his teenage son.

The guitar became the subject of a legal wrangle and was eventually returned to Harrison's family.

But, according to the Press Association news agency, the doctor claimed his name has been so tarnished by adverse publicity that the trial should be moved elsewhere.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4044955.stm
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 08:57 AM
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1. Defendant would gently weep
The Judge agreed, pronouncing his ruling "with apologies to the late George Harrison" thus:

"Something in the folks he treats
Attracts bad press like no other doctor
He's in our jurisdiction now
He gets Beatle autographs somehow
And all I have to do is move this trial
Somewhere they don't know George Harrison
If this case I were to keep
Defendant would gently weep."

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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 09:54 AM
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2. "While my guitar gently weeps"....
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-26-04 10:37 AM
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3. What a goofball.
A bench is not the place for such antics.

Remember that judge who threw a party in the courtroom? What's WRONG with these people?
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 02:27 PM
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4. Okay.
:crazy:
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