Judge makes 'Rock, paper, scissors' ruling
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge, miffed at the inability of opposing attorneys to agree on even the slightest details of a lawsuit, ordered them to settle their latest dispute with a game of "rock, paper, scissors."
The argument was over a location to take the sworn statement of a witness in an insurance lawsuit.
In an order signed Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell scolded both sides and ordered them to meet at a neutral location at 4 p.m. June 30 to play a round of the hand-gesture game often used to settle childhood disputes. If they can't agree on the neutral location, he said, they'll play on the steps of the federal courthouse. [...]
Flip a coin and be done with it. Or better yet, if the judge can set a location for the contest in case the lawyers are unable to decide on a neutral location for the game, why couldn't he just have gone ahead and decided on a neutral location for the deposition?
Or, if you simply must have them compete, drop them out of a plane without parachutes, and the first one to the ground is the winner.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 9, 2006 09:25 AM