The groundwork for research into the occurrence of laughter at the US Supreme Court was initially provided by Professor Jay D. Wexler (of Boston University School of Law) in his 2005 article for Green Bag (second series, Volume 9, number 1) entitled : “Laugh Track”. The professor had made the decision to quantify the laughter […]
Tag: legal
Legal scholarship: crayons, a tree, and the self
From the Lowering the Bar blog’s collection of legal cases worth pondering, if not studying [that’s our description, not necessarily Lowering the Bar‘s, though not necessarily not, either]: Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corp. (S.D. Tex. 2001) (“Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact . . . to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on […]
40 barrels & 20 kegs of Coca-Cola
The Providentia blog describes one of first great court clashes between a modern foodstuff manufacturer and modern food safety advocates. The case, known as the U.S. vs. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca Cola case, featured (in its records) the phrase “…Mr. Elliott Cheatham for plaintiff in error.” Providentia says: It was quite a […]
Black holes and the law
Professor Eric E. Johnson of the University of North Dakota School of Law tries to solve the legal conundrum of the Swiss black hole. In “The Black Hole Case: The Injunction Against the End of the World” (Tennessee Law Review, no. 819, 2009, arXiv:0912.5480v2) he writes: “What should a court do with a preliminary-injunction request […]