Judges and Judiciary
Dec. 11, 2013
Fed up with this derision of the bench
Judges may not be fed up with insulting, discourteous, obdurate or offensively familiar counsel, but I am.
The appellate justice engaged plaintiff-petitioner's counsel in lively but unenlightening dialog about a challenging insurance issue. The opposing lawyer approached the lectern with a chance to score points. The justice posed the question that vexed petitioner. The opposing lawyer retorted that the question was compound and ill-conceived, but he would get to it after making some more important points.
I am not making this up. Counsel's objection portended an execrable argument. He...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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