Judicial Humor

For those of you who may have missed it, check out Judge Martin Sheehan's decision in Kissel v Schwartz in Kentucky.  The decision is extremely short and certainly worth a read for a quick dose of humor.

H/T to my colleague, Mike Benza!

Comments

[Thomas E. Baker]

On the subject of humor in judicial opinions, see this recent posting of mine:

http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2011/07/court-jesters-attempts-at-humor-in-judicial-opinions.html#more

[Tim Zinnecker]

Made my day! Thanks for the post!
Now if I can just work the opinion into my Secured Transactions syllabus ....

[Jennifer Laurin]

All right. I'm going to ask it. Putting aside general feelings about comedy in judicial opinions, how about specific reaction to the propriety of the topless bar/breastfeeding reference? In a wide universe of idioms, is that the best choice? Personally (and speaking as someone without experience in topless bars, but with experience breastfeeding in public), I was a bit, well, put off.

[Jacqueline Lipton]

Jennifer: I see what you mean and I myself am a breastfeeding mother at the moment, but I wasn't offended by the reference. I can't really explain why. Something for me to think about. (In my case I suspect I'm just so sleep deprived that I find anything funny...)