Judges and Judiciary
Apr. 3, 2008
Poetic Justice
Entertaining though they may be, in most cases, poetry and limericks do not belong in judges' rulings.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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There is a rumor working its way through the courts: The Judicial Performance Commission is investigating a trial judge because he wrote limericks in a statement of decision. If this is true, I bet they were bad limericks, or were insulting to a litigant. A five-line poem that opens with "There once was a ... " where lines one, two and five rhyme with one another, and have three metrical feet, and lines three and four rhyme wi...
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