No rhymes or puns, but one of the funniest decisions I've seen in recent
years is Smith v. Colonial Penn Ins. Co., 943 F. Supp. 782, 784 (S.D. Tex.
1996). Rejecting the defendant insurance company's motion for transfer of
venue due to inconvenience, the Court wrote (in part):
"... Defendant should be assured that it is not embarking on a
three-week-long trip via covered wagons when it travels to Galveston.
Rather, Defendant will be pleased to discover that the highway is paved and
lighted all the way to Galveston, and thanks to the efforts of this Court's
predecessor, Judge Roy Bean, the trip should be free of rustlers, hooligans,
or vicious varmints of unsavory kind. Moreover, the speed limit was recently
increased to seventy miles per hour on most of the road leading to
Galveston, so Defendant should be able to hurtle to justice at lightning
speed. ..."
David Bachman
Vanderbilt University Law Library
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Leiter [mailto:rleiter@unlserve.unl.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 12:44 PM
To: LAW-LIB
Subject: Rhyming & Punny Judicial Decisions
I am mounting an exhibit on Judicial humor. I have three of Judge Brown's
opinions, Brown v. State (216 SE 2d 356, US v. One 1976 Ford F-150 Pick-Up
599 F Supp 818, Fisher v. Lowe (333 NW 2d 67), and Mackensworth v. American
Trading Transportation (367 F Supp 373) and the Duquesne case comment on
Mackensworth.
Does anyone know of other judicial opinions that are funny, witty or clever
that I might include in the exhibit?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Rich
-- Richard Leiter Schmid Law Library University of Nebraska402.472.5737 rleiter@unl.edu
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