Justice Moyers to Arneback: Your Fancy-Pants Legal Language :-D

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We have the writer for the Nashua Advocate on DU! Here's a piece he just alerted us to... it's must read

http://www.nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/

News: Election 2004: Ohio Chief Justice to Arneback: Your Fancy-Pants Legal Language Taxes My Intellect, Please Rephrase Your Suit in Simple Language
By ADVOCATE STAFF

In an embarrassment to competent lawyers nationwide, the top Republican in Ohio's judicial branch, Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, has temporarily thrown out a contest of election filed by Alliance for Democracy attorney Clifford Arneback because the judge erroneously thought Attorney Arneback was contesting his own election to a fourth term as Chief Justice.

The contest of election alleges that John F. Kerry should have received more votes in Ohio than "official" tallies suggest, given that a little-known Democratic candidate for Chief Justice, C. Ellen Connally -- whom Moyer defeated on November 2nd, 2004, to keep his job as Chief Justice -- inexplicably received more votes than the well-funded, nationally-recognized Kerry in more than a dozen counties.

Competent lawyers reviewing the Alliance for Democracy lawsuit were aware that Attorney Arneback was citing the Moyer-Connally results as correct -- and Ohio's Bush-Kerry vote totals as incorrect.

Attorney Arneback is expected to re-file the suit shortly, using monosyllabic words and elementary, easily-digested sentence structures.

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