[Todd Zywicki, March 6, 2006 at 7:53pm] Trackbacks
Citing Madison:

This time it's Billy, not James.

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WB:
It's real.

At the court's website.
3.6.2006 9:22pm
Lowell R. (mail):
This is what happens when you piece together motions from random books you find in the law library.
3.6.2006 10:01pm
Lowell R. (mail):
By the way, not only is this the first time a federal court has ever quoted from Billy Madison in a published opinion, it's only the second time it's ever been mentioned. See Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Landa, 974 F.Supp. 1, 9 (C.D. Ill. 1997).
3.6.2006 10:14pm
Chico's Bail Bonds (mail):
O'Doyle Rules!
3.7.2006 12:03am
David Berke:
Any Judge who cites to an Adam Sandler movie is worthy of great respect in my book.
3.7.2006 1:11pm
Anderson (mail) (www):
What also impressed me is that the judge didn't even enjoy a lifetime appointment. He obviously didn't care whom he ticked off.

That said, I would wonder whether the incomprehensible party was pro se or not. I would not praise the court's order in the former case. Pro se litigants may be incomprehensible, but they shouldn't be tweaked for it.
3.7.2006 2:46pm
German-American:
The tweaked defendant, Richard Willis King, is also running for the Texas state legislature from the 124th district.

http://www.nrapvf.org/elections/State.aspx?State=TX
3.7.2006 3:19pm
Anderson (mail) (www):
Beautiful, G-A, beautiful. I note from your link that even though he's a Republican, he couldn't get the NRA's imprimatur. Maybe they, too, find him incomprehensible.
3.7.2006 4:26pm
Interested:
Has anyone found a copy of the actual memo that prompted the order? I'd really like to read that one...
3.9.2006 11:06am