There Are Good Reasons Not to Disparage Your Opponent, Especially in Court Filings"

[Disir]

And what sorts of insults were at issue? A few examples from the opinion:

• That MEAC "surrendered to [Ballad] much in the manner Marshal Petain surrendered France to Adolph Hitler." R. 48-1, Pg. ID 942.
• That the Ballad merger was an "Octopus which was birthed by [two individuals] on one of the local golf courses while [they] were walking down the 'green fairways of indifference,' to the health, safety and welfare of millions of people." Id.; see also id. at 949 (referring to the merged entity as "the Levine-Greene Octopus").
• That Ballad and MEAC are "intertwined in an incestuous relationship, the likes of which have not been seen since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah." Id. at 950; see also id. at 943 (describing the defendants as in "an incestuous, antitrust relationship").
• That the Tennessee Department of Health's failure to supervise the defendants "is akin to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation allowing criminals to rape, murder, pillage, loot and plunder on its watch, while its agents stand by." Id. at 951.
• That "a virus has been effectively introduced into the Ballad Board which has sickened all 11 directors, and which requires their permanent quarantine." Id. at 954.

"There Are Good Reasons Not to Disparage Your Opponent, Especially in Court Filings"

A reminder from Judge Thapar that insults and invective are no substitute for argument.

reason.com

Holy crap. That's crazy.

 

[Gdjjr]

From the article: "Careful research and cogent reasoning, not aspersions, are the proper tools of our trade."

I call bullshit on the judge and would ask him to read the men and women who wear black dresses to work ( 9 gods) in the District of Criminals *opinion* on fines vs tax- if they can't offer cogent reasoning why should a lowly stinky tourist be expected to?