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Another Perspective
The Ninth Circuit Experience
Eavesdropping on a historic moment of opinion-making.
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JUDGE FRIEDMAN: (Belches) No wonder this country’s full of lard asses.
JUDGE REINHARDT: Buzzing around in their little motorized shopping carts.
JUDGE FRIEDMAN: Loading up on the Twinkies and Ding Dongs.
(Pause)
JUDGE FRIEDMAN (Laughs fondly): Reminds me of when that Albuquerque jury stuck it to McDonald’s after that one old bag spilled coffee in her lap.
JUDGE REINHARDT: That was some trial! (Considers.) You know what I think? I think this case has that kind of potential.
JUDGE FRIEDMAN: Hold on. You’re forgetting — that case was — what do they call it? A slam dunk. This one, I mean, you must admit the plaintiff’s case was a little weak.
JUDGE REINHARDT (Sullenly): Yeah. And where did they come up with this “denying the Chipotle Experience” stuff? My God!!
JUDGE FRIEDMAN: Watching some pimply faced kid make your burrito. That’s some experience.
JUDGE REINHARDT: How starved for entertainment was this guy?
JUDGE FRIEDMAN: Kind of pathetic, when you think about it.
JUDGE REINHARDT: What was this, his twentieth ADA lawsuit?
JUDGE FRIEDMAN: I should keep track?
JUDGE REINHARDT (Laughs): Beats working, I guess.
(Judges silently stare at their stocking feet.)
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Denver Todd| 8.5.10 @ 8:36AM
Chipotle as a chain spends a lot of time in liberal-ville, so I guess that they get what they pay for. However, this does seem silly. I can see them intalling a curtain so nobody can see their burrito being made, but at least it would equalize the Chipotle experience.
Tenn Slim| 8.5.10 @ 9:46AM
Absolutely absurd article.
While USA declines, we are subject to meaningless chatter.
AMSP you can do better than this.
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Semper Fi
We WILL Prevail
J.C.Eaton| 8.5.10 @ 10:02AM
Absolutely disagree Slim. The article is absurd only in the sense that the decision and what passes for its' "reasoning" is absurd. I was on the bench for over 25 years. This is an exquisite example of the jurisprudential end game. Best, and Semper Fi.
jrjr| 8.5.10 @ 4:37PM
Unless anyone doubts this kind of goings on and doesn't know - the 9th Circuit is on the left coast, and housed in Pelosiville, Ca.
WRJonas | 8.5.10 @ 4:38PM
I wonder how long it will be before our Liberal Judges declare that man -boy love is legal and pedophiles have a Constitutional right to have intercourse with anyone.The age restriction is only a razor thin redefinition away.
Then we may have true test of "tolerance" to see how many parents think that society has no right to place restrictions on any one.
Seek| 8.5.10 @ 5:16PM
Is this the most idiotic civil suit ever filed or what? This is almost up there with that guy in Washington who demanded $54 million (or thereabouts) in damages for a pair of pants allegedly ruined by the local cleaners.
We've got a dozen or Chipotle restaurants in my area. I've been to a few. Yes, it's nice to "experience" how a burrito is made. But it's even nicer eating it and paying a reasonable price with good service. In other words: Who gives a flying rat's ass about observing the construction of a burrito?
The wheelchair plaintiff, no doubt egged on by a shyster lawyer, should be lucky he's capable of eating. The company, meanwhile, will be out several hundred grand.
What's next? A blind man sues a Japanese steak house for depriving him of the opportunity of seeing a hibachi steak in progress? Litigation madness marches on.
CJohnson| 8.5.10 @ 8:48PM
Doesn't that make you want to rush out and GIVE?