- A #legalwriting, shoe-don’t-tell dissenting opinion.
- An Ohio Supreme Court majority agrees with a magistrate’s decision that defining high concentrations of nitrogen as a “toxic gas” is “redundant. Dissent: I “strongly and emphatically” dissent, whether or not saying so is redundant. Opinion: www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...
- For the show-don’t-tell #legalwriting prize, I haven’t seen anything that beats Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pfeifer’s 307-word, one-sentence dissent about a 307-word, one sentence statute.
- I make an exception from my blanket condemnation of judicial humor for this show-don’t-tell 307-word, punctuation-free dissent explaining why we shouldn’t construe a 307-word, punctuation-free statute to convict and imprison this person. www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...
