LEGAL TOPICS: Legal Wit

Legal Wit — Flying Wheels

Wheels should not be approaching one's vehicle on the highway unattached  Gunderson v.

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Legal Wit — In-house, Out-house

An in-house lawyer is just as competent as an out-house lawyer.

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Legal Wit — Raining Golf Balls

No issue is taken with the trial judge's finding that a barrage of misdirected golf balls emanating from the ninth hole of the Emerald Park Golf Course created a nuisance for the plaintiff homeowners.

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Legal Wit — Parliament Didn't Protect God's Privacy Rights

Two police officers left the accused in a polygraph room, which was equipped with a hidden microphone and hidden video camera.

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Legal Wit — Moving the Goalposts

It is difficult to overstate the degree of the applicants' frustration at the never-ending movement of the target that the [Rural Municipality] set for them with respect to the acquisition of the highly coveted building permit that they were seeking.

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Legal Wit — Low Expectations

In a trial involving self-represented litigants, my expectations are low: all I ask is that they be clothed.

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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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