Lawyers Ordered to Play RPS to Settle Dispute 265
Rent-to-Pwn writes "After the lawyers involved couldn't settle even the most basic disputes without court intervention, a federal judge ordered the two lawyers to play one (1) game of rock, paper, scissors to settle the dispute. Being a federal case, in theory, it could become precedent for similar, unimportant decisions. Of course, there's no mention of what the two lawyers are supposed to do in case of a tie ..."
probably as fair than most legal proceedings (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Umm... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Geez... what a precedent (Score:5, Insightful)
missed the obvious issue (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Geez... what a precedent (Score:1, Insightful)
What precedent?
Rule of thumb: if somebody has been exposed to a technical term (such as precedent in the article write-up) so few times that they still don't know how to spell it, they are talking out of their arse.
Would you listen to somebody making technical claims about the Linux "kernal"? Then why would you listen, for a second, to somebody making technical claims about legal "precident"?
Cool Judge! (Score:4, Insightful)
His solution was quite appropriate to the situation presented. And it just might have shown the lawyers how silly the dispute was.
Toss a coin (Score:3, Insightful)
I recall this happened in two seats in this year's local elections (where the number of electors is small and the turnout is even smaller).
One of the losers was interviewed on the radio and seemed quite cool about it - "fair enough", he said.
Even funnier Judges decision over Tucker Max (Score:3, Insightful)
I hang out on another web site a bit (Tucker Max) and he was sued by a guy that was being made fun of in a few of the threads.
The guy's lawyer was BEYOND a hack, and the judge's verdict from the site made me laugh out loud.
Thread is here: http://messageboard.tuckermax.com/showthread.php?
I'm no lawyer by any means, but I can tell that the judge had FUN belittling the guy. And, he actually had sentences using phrases with "fisted by a gorilla" and "jerkoff".
More importantly, this was a pretty serious precedent that was set, in that the operator of the board was not held to be responsible for the comments made by the members.
It's definitely worth a read if you have 10 or 15 minutes.
Re:Nothing at stake... (Score:3, Insightful)
Not all that uncommon -- Nevada draws cards! (Score:2, Insightful)
BUT . . . this type of stuff isn't entirely unheard of, and is even written into law in some locales:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Nov-0
Not at all (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Geez... what a precedent (Score:3, Insightful)
Basically, if a person does not know the difference when writing a word, why would they know the difference when reading it? That affects their comprehension of the material, and their communication of it.
I case of a tie? (Score:2, Insightful)
The players pump a closed fist in front of themselves three times together showing rock (fist), paper (hand flat fingers extended) or scissors (fist with index and second finger extended) on the third pump. We also chanted "Junk ina Po" as a pump count.
It's a fun game and actually has strategy and a world championship event. See http://www.rpschamps.com/ [rpschamps.com].
The lawyers should pay all court costs for... (Score:2, Insightful)
Later,
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