Another Contracts Limerick:
An ode to Cricket Alley Corp. v. Data Terminal Systems (from a poet in my Contracts II class):
Facts:
DTS sold registers to Cricket’s
To automate bookkeeping wickets.
The shop owner said, “Dang!
These won’t talk to my Wang.
We’re stuck with hand entered sales tickets.”
Holding:
Cricket’s needs were expressed or implied.
On salesmen’s claims Cricket had relied.
Damage was foreseeable
And so we’re agreeable
Consequence relief can’t be denied.
Facts:
DTS sold consoles to Cricket’s
To automate bookkeeping wickets.
Cricket's said, “Dang!
These won’t talk to my Wang.
We’re stuck with hand entered tickets.”
Holding:
Cricket’s needs were expressed or implied,
And on DTS' claims they relied.
With damage foreseeable
We must be agreeable
Consequentials cannot be denied.
DTS sold some consoles to Cricket’s
To automate bookkeeping wickets.
Cricket's said, “Dang!
These won’t talk to my Wang.
Now we’re stuck here with hand entered tickets.”
In Clinton v. Jones, the Court spurns
The conclusion for which Clinton yearns.
"The President's torts
Are fit matter for courts,
So to trial this issue returns." [1]
But in Clinton, the reader soon learns
Further truths Stephen Breyer discerns.
"The Prez, with impunity
Can't claim immunity --
Rather, it's something he earns." [2]
Justice Breyer explains in concurr'n'z
That the Prez doesn't just chase interns.
A Congress or judge,
They can all of them budge,
But "the President never adjourns." [3]
[1] 520 U.S. at 684.
[2] Id. at 710 (Breyer, J., concurring).
[3] Id. at 713.
Abstract artwork much like Jackson Pollock's
Harvard wins, yes it's true
Stick to Hoops GMU
Your poetical skills are the bollocks
For those of us who haven't read (or can't remember) this case, please explain the signifigance of the line "These won't talk to my Wang."
Thanks a lot!
Now Wang is the number 3 starter for the Yankees.
What I'm wondering is, what is a "bookkeeping wicket"?
Interesting, although in the US the computers were universally pronounced "Wang" as in "Dang" or "Rang."
Higglety-pigglety
Justice Ruth Bader G.
Onliest woman a-
Mong the Supremes;
Does she get treated dis-
Criminatorily
When they choosing up
Sides for their teams?
If there weren't any before, there's at least one now.
wasis