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.
Arthur Gilbert
Justice (ret.)
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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