Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

From Robert Edwin Davis, of Dallas (Davis, LeClair, Loegering & Daniel), this docket sheet from a 1995 case in the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Mo. - which "makes it clear that there are still judges sitting on the bench with courage enough to say precisely what they think, and with eloquence enough to make the court's views unmistakable."

Docket Sheet
Style: Jeffrey Wilson vs. SWBT Case No. CV195-412CC
Action: Violations of Missouri antitrust law
Filed: April 10, 1995

June 28, 1995 JUDGE: The court, having endured unprecedented professional carping, back biting and pettifoggery between some of the lawyers in this case and having decided that no one should endure behavior that disgraces the legal profession, the parents of the lawyers who act so rudely, and themselves does decide to rule on the pleadings alone sua sponte. Motion to intervene, sustained. Motion to abate, overruled. Motion to certify class, sustained, so ordered.

S/John C. Brackmann, the issues in case appearing rather simple in spite of the money involved, the case set #3 on 2Oct95. Copies all attorneys on record.

July 11, 1995 MISC: Plaintiff's certificate of service of answers to interrogatories and responses to first request for production, filed.

Feb. 26, 1996 MISC: Plaintiff's voluntary dismissal without prejudice, filed.

March 1, 1996 JUDGE: Dismissed by plaintiff at plaintiff's costs. Copy attorneys (seven)

Full post as published by Say What! on January 15, 2008 (boomark / email).