OT Note from School

There seem to be more people standing moot every day. Polly

"Mary" wroteI thought that I was past horrid grammar when I left teaching
and went
to law school. I was mistaken. I received a letter from an attorney
whose new client had not shown up for his hearing date, lost his
license, and then decided it was time to hire an attorney. The
attorney wrote a letter protesting the revocation of the license
during a hearing on default, saying that his client had "elected to
stand moot". I also got a chewing out from a judge once when I called
him to say that it appeared that some of his letterhead had gone
astray and that it appeared that his signature had been forged. He
asked why I thought that, and I told him that my office had received
what appeared to be a court order on his letterhead which not only
met none of the legal requirements and appeared to violate several
laws, but also denied my client due process and was full of
misspellings and grammatical errors. At that point he informed me
that he had personally executed that order and that if my client did
not follow that order that he would have me arrested! Those
documents were among those out staff posted on a "Hall of Shame"
bulletin board in the back of the law library.