Focus (Forum & Focus)
Sep. 4, 2008
When Judges Get Cute
While courts courts deal with groundbreaking legal arguments, important constitutional issues, disputes worth vast sums of money and other weighty topics, judges can occasionally lighten up a bit, writes John G. Browning. - Forum Column
By John G. Browning
This article appears on Page 6
In authoring a 1967 guide for new judges, Judge George Rose Smith of Arkansas admonished against displaying judicial humor, calling it "neither judicial nor humorous."
By 1990, however, Smith had had a change of heart, calling his previous disapproval "hereby overruled, set aside, held for naught, and stomped ...
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