Legal Wit Archives : 2013

Legal Wit — Judicial Whack-A-Mole

The persistent and seemingly irrepressible argument about the significant intrusiveness of breath samples appears to have taken on the character of the "whack-a-mole" arcade game.

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Legal Wit — Transparent Codes

"[I]it didn't improve things that his code, like most codes used by gun and drug dealers, was rather transparent."

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Legal Wit — Feasting on Minutiae

Twitter is an online social networking service and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read text based messages of up to 140 characters with their friends or others who follow their Twitter account.

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Legal Wit — Drug Smuggling Misadventures

"At times, the conspiracy would resemble a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera"

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Legal Wit — My object all sublime

I believe that my conclusion reflects the objectives or the contemporary arbitral jurisprudence.

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Legal Wit — Legislation roasting on an open fire

It is for the courts to interpret the law and not to make it.

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Legal Wit — Ragging the Puck

There is a point where the courts are being misused by constant and continuing efforts to keep a proceeding open instead of accepting the determination that has been made and moving on.

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Legal Wit — (Tree) Death and Taxes

In this appeal, the Court is called upon to answer the age-old question: If a tree falls in the forest and you are not around to replant it, how does it affect your taxes?   2013 CarswellNat 1469 Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd.

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Legal Wit — Time Machines and Lassoes

The fact that the concept of time has not been lassoed by science so that one can travel back in time, making it impossible to physically make 54 … payments from 2005 to 2009, does not strip the support from maintaining its periodic nature.

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Legal Wit — Green Eggs and Ham as Allegory

"Are civil trials the legal equivalent of green eggs and ham?"

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Legal Wit — Flowers vs. Business Records

"All I am saying is that, in constitutional terms, flowers are on their own."

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Legal Wit — Paid to go Away ≠ Employment

"[T]urned up, to use Mr. Coles' terminology, "higher than a kite". Mr. Coles paid him $50 to go away."

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