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[rivkat]

My sister pointed me to this great piece on why superhero stories are interesting.

Apparently, just like my sister, I am FRCP 11. YOU ARE RULE 11!

You were designed to make sure that attorneys in
federal cases make reasonable inquiries into
fact or law before submitting pleadings,
motions, or other papers. You were a real
hardass in 1983, when you snuffed out all legal
creativity from federal proceedings and
embarassed well-meaning but overzealous
attorneys. You loosened up a bit in 1993, when
you began allowing plaintiffs to make
allegations in their complaints that are likely
to have evidentiary support after discovery,
and when you allowed a 21 day period for the
erring attorney to withdraw the errant motion.
Sure, you keep everything running on the up and
up, but it's clear that things would be a lot
more fun without you around.


Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You?
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Comments

[ter369.livejournal.com]

The superhero piece linked to another one (it's all meta, right?), so thanks for the reading recs.

so what superhero are you?

[accommodatingly.livejournal.com]

If you've taken such a quiz I want to know. I tried to find out what FRCP I was (not that I would get the jokes necessarily) but found myself blocked by Quizilla's sluggish server. I once took a "Which X-Man" quiz over and over, but didn't get the character I was looking for-- I don't think she was a possible answer. (And I assume you've heard that Joss plans to write 12 issues' worth of X-Men, starting...sometime.)

Re: so what superhero are you?

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I did hear the good Joss/X-Men news, as well as the Firefly movie news. I'm now writing an X-Men movie crossover with a friend, so I'm learning more (though movie and comics canon are really quite distinct).

I don't think I've ever taken a superhero quiz, though for Smallville meteor mutants I got Lex as my result, big surprise there.

I think the site is a scam

[iocaste212.livejournal.com]

I'm just like Rule 11 too. As is a friend. Is anyone a different rule? I'd like to be Permissive Joinder, for political reasons.

Re: I think the site is a scam

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I know someone who got Rule 8. Maybe legalistic minds all end up as 11.

(Spit Diet Coke into my keyboard)

[tesla321.livejournal.com]

I blame you, actually.
But I go to see what FRCP I am
and to mail it to all my lawyer friends.

Now that I think about it, two thirds of my RL
friends are lawyers. Almost all of my online
friends write fanfic.

I need to go outside once in a while.