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ARTICLE · 28 DECEMBER 2011

The Appellate Record Blog: Story Time For Litigators

There's something wrong with the story that follows after the jump.

United StatesLitigation, Mediation & Arbitration

There's something wrong with the story that follows after the jump.

Actually, there's one big thing wrong, which is the product of a lot of little things.

To get the full effect, imagine that it is set out in 12 point, double-spaced, Times New Roman with one inch margins.

In a post (or posts) to come, my head will explode about why we lawyers write so poorly. Is there a law somewhere that says we must . . . .

But I digress.

After the jump is the story. Any resemblance between my story and a brief you may have sent me to edit is purely coincidental.

Or at least really really exaggerated to make a point.

COMES NOW, Dr. Thomas Muffet (hereinafter "Muffet" or "APPELLANT") and by fourteen points of error does hereby challenge the judgment of the Family Court in terminating his parental rights viz. his adopted step-daughter, Patience Muffet (hereinafter, "the Child") for, inter alia, endangering the Child on or about June 7, 2010 by exposing the Child to a

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