Just in case there is anyone out there who thinks that you can't be a great legal mind and a literary dunce at the same time, check out this little aside in Abioa v. Abubakar, 2006 U.S. Dist LEXIS 73051 (N.D. Ill. 2006):
"Despite the defendant’s suggestion that the [Torture Victim Protection Act] presents courts with a ‘juridical banana peel,’ Def. Reply at 5, it is the defendant who slipped while at the fruit market: he is comparing apples to oranges."
Cool it, Produce Pete. Talk about taking a metaphor too far.
But it gets better - a judge may be sloppy with language sometimes, but he isn't helped by lawyers who don't even bother to follow links on Internet searches. Check out Note 3:
“The court notes, however, that the defendant supports his argument by what he calls ‘Googlable evidence.’ … Information that is supported by nothing more than a Google reference does not pass muster.”
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