Quote of the Day

[kate_nepveu]

"One person with a fantastic view may be suspected of delusions; two people with the identical view are just oddballs."
     —Judge Easterbrook, United States v. James, No. 02-3424, slip op. at 5-6 (7th Cir. May 14, 2003) [9 page PDF opinion]

Via the invaluable How Appealling.

[ Edited to add pincite. ]

Comments

[annewashere.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think I liked "I am Catholic and the Pope would not wear a miter."

Geez.

[kate_nepveu]

Yeah, when an appellate court goes out of its way to say, "No, we don't have to talk about this topic, but we're going to anyway," you can be pretty sure that the court was a bit taken aback by whatever they're going to talk about. My guess is that the trial judge had a bit of a patience problem by that point, but that's only a guess.