Litigation
May 30, 2003
Ruby and Pooh: Proof That, in Los Angeles, Courts Are the Real Zoos
Column by Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh and Ruby the elephant have one legal thing in common. The animals recently made headlines by pingponging between federal and state courts in Los Angeles in that great lawyers' game called Forum Shopping. [Personally, I prefer to call it Jurisdiction Jumping because that term gives me pleasant thoughts of hordes of lawyers on pogo sticks hopping madly from courthouse to courthouse like herds of stressed-out, scheming kangaroos.]
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Winnie the Pooh and Ruby the elephant have one legal thing in common.
The animals recently made headlines by pingponging between federal and state courts in Los Ange...
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