Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a 4 page concurring opinion in the (former Playmate) Anna Nicole Smith case. Nothing unusual about that. He wrote that he doesn't believe in a "probate exception" to federal jurisdiction. Ok, apparently that means something to law geeks.
I'm surprised the following didn't get a mention on the Daily Show. In his opinion Stevens managed to slip in the word bosom, he just did it in latin. He used the latin phrase "in gremio legis" which means "in the bosom of the law".
No I didn't realize this myself, but I got it from How Appealing which got it from Steve Vladeck's Blog which is really about the "probate exception" issue.
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lapsus linguae
or
multum in parvo?
Probably not a slip of the tongue, Justices are pretty deliberate. Much ado about nothing? Most certainly. But still I think Jon Stewart would have enjoyed it.
In other interesting judicial news, the judge presiding over the Da Vinci Code plagiarism case added a secret code into his ruling.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0604270209apr27,1,7098540.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
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