Court Orders Law Firm to Stop Filing Documents with Awesome Dragon Watermark
Court Orders Law Firm to Stop Filing Documents with Awesome Dragon Watermark
Law professor Eugene Volokh notes that Magistrate Judge Ray Kent ordered a firm named Dragon Lawyers to cease filing documents with an enormous watermark of a suit-wearing dragon on every page of its documentation.Each page of plaintiff's complaint appears on an e-filing which is dominated by a larg...
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Kind of a harsh and severe way of dealing with it.
What’s harsh about “cut your bullshit, this is a courtroom”?
Nobody’s going to jail, they just have to stop sending cartoons.
I'm willing to lower my standards for describing a ruling with synonyms for "draconian" when there's a dragon involved.
Named after a Greek, not a dragon
I'm willing to lower my standards for calling a Greek a dragon too. Not something I'd necessarily do in the courtroom but in the comments of a !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world post, sure.
It also makes for a waste of ink, for those judges and lawyers who are more comfortable with hard copies.
Now it all makes sense, dinosaurs (particularly the Brontosaurus) have a long-standing feud with dragons for stealing their thunder.
Also:
Telling them to stop doing it, without punishing anyone in any way, is a severe way of dealing with it?
What?
Please don’t ever get into hard labor, you would burn out in like under a minute if you think this is harsh
To be clear, you believe that my comment about the ruling being draconian is sincere in spite of the other replies here?
Hah, draconian
Baited and outsmarted