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V-Day Reader Poll: Best Romantic-Sounding Supreme Court Case

By Eric Lipman

As you are all no doubt aware, Sunday is Valentine's Day. Bitter Lawyer beat us to the interview with playmate/divorce lawyer Corri Fetman, who recently became embroiled in a trademark suit with Hef et al. over the title of an advice column she used to write for Playboy magazine. So, the next best thing, I figured, would be to have a little fun with the Supreme Court. I've already sent out my cards to the Justices, so let's take a look back at some of the cases decided by the Court with holiday-themed captions. Vote for your favorite of the following five, or nominate your own in the comments. 1) Rose v. Rose, 481 U.S. 619 (1987): Deals with the decidedly unromantic topics of war injuries and deadbeat dads. The Court held that a Tennessee state court had jurisdiction to hold a disabled veteran in contempt for failing to pay child support, rejecting the argument that only the Veteran's Administration and Social Security Administration could determine what child support payments could be ordered paid from disability benefits, which constituted the father's sole income. 2) Fullilove v. Klutznick, 448 U.S. 448 (1980): You know you remember it from Con Law. One...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on February 12, 2010 (boomark / email).