HEARSAY
If you restrict access to tanning salons, you’re just going
to force kids outside where there is no supervision.
John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, on a bill in the
Florida legislature to ban teenagers from using tanning beds. A study by the International Agency for
Research on Cancer has cited the ultraviolet rays of indoor tanning beds as a top carcinogen.
“Life is dull enough. There’s
no reason why legal argument cannot be civilized
with a little bit of wit and
humor now and then.”
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,
when an interviewer asked him why
he makes wisecracks from the bench.
He added that it’s risky for the lawyers
who are arguing a case to try to be
funny, but the judges can do it.
“Simply put, if it weren’t for
the e orts of the North Face,
the South Butt probably
wouldn’t still exist.”
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St. Louis lawyer Albert Watkins, on a
trademark lawsuit that outdoor apparel
company the North Face filed against
University of Missouri freshman James
Winkelmann, who started a clothing
line called the “South Butt” as a joke.
Watkins, who represents Winkelmann,
said South Butt’s sales were sluggish
until the lawsuit generated media attention. Winkelmann has since sold enough
to pay for all four years of college.
“It never occurred to me that
the reason she knew the
criminal law system in such
detail is because she had
been a participant in the
criminal law system as an
accused.”
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Toronto lawyer Noel Daley, who says
he was conned out of $148,000 by a
woman who posed as a law student.
After he hired her for legal work,
she convinced him to bankroll bogus
marketing projects. She faces charges
of fraud and witchcraft—according
to Daley, she gave him a tarot card
reading and said she was inhabited
by the spirit of his older sister.
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