Monday, January 22, 2007
Rock, Paper, Gun
A federal judge in Georgia has apparently decided to settle some of the disputes in a consumer debt-collection case by making the lawyers do "rock-paper-scissors." If this sort of alternative dispute resolution catches on, we'll need professional advice from folks like the World Rock-Paper-Scissors Society, which has been "serving the needs of decision makers since 1918."
Which reminds me that my two little boys have learned a Texas version of this, which is called "rock-paper-gun." Gun apparently beats both scissors and paper.
[ADD: Alan Childress over at our sister blog, Legal Profession, makes the excellent point that this kind of conduct by judges isn't likely to increase public confidence in the judicial system.]
[Frank Snyder]
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2007/01/rock_paper_gun.html