Law Practice,
Appellate Practice
Sep. 12, 2022
Mistakes v. Errors
Certain persnickety readers, some posing as friends, love to point out spelling and punctuation mistakes (or is it errors?) I have committed in my columns.
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.
Judges are constantly faced with verses... I mean "versus." The former refers to metrical feet, like in poetry, Shakespeare sonnets kind of thing. But "versus" refers to a party or parties against one another. Like in sports...no, not like in sports. A trial is not a sporting event. Don't get me started. Where were we? Oh, yes, verses v. versus. I just proved I know the difference. But what if I wrote "Judges are constantly faced with parties verses parties." You can ...
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