Supreme Folly

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 - 208 páginas
Lawyers and non-lawyers alike fell delightedly on the authors' previous collection of ridiculous excerpts from actual court cases. Now Rodney R. Jones and Gerald F. Uelmen return with an all-new assortment of unintentionally amusing incidents from legal cases of all kinds, including folly in the Supreme Court itself.

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Índice

Foreword
7
Objections Overruled
11
Trial by Jury
31
Frivolous Questions
43
The Joy of Epithets
59
Beasts Before the Bar
77
The Names in the Game
97
Stare Decisis
111
Supreme Folly
143
Just Desserts
159
A Codicil of Spurious Precedents
177
When Is a Horse a Small Bird?
179
The Arkansas Omnibus Repealer
184
The Oberweiss Will
190
The Christmas Opinions
192
The Alfred Packer Legend
198

Poetic Justice
123
Table of Cases
201

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Acerca do autor (1993)

Rodney R. Jones is a practicing attorney in Medocino, California.

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