Kershner

You might be right, I'll have to rewatch that scene some time.

Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy...I loved how it waterfalled down from Massey to the judge to the baliff.

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tom_james-267-296610 wrote:

It's a joke.

I do not doubt that at all, but I was amused to discover that there is a perhaps relevant Kershner case.

Kershner isn't relevant because as Freddy points out, it (whatever the case law was) only applied in Kentucky).

Does he claim case law or only a precedent? I don't remember. Precedents may not be binding in another state but they are certainly relevant as persuasive precedents.

Within the federal legal systems of several common-law countries, and most especially the United States, it is relatively common for the distinct lower-level judicial systems (e.g. state courts in the United States and Australia, provincial courts in Canada) to regard the decisions of other jurisdictions within the same country as persuasive precedent. Particularly in the United States, the adoption of a legal doctrine by a large number of other state judiciaries is regarded as highly persuasive evidence of the general preferability of that doctrine;http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Precedent

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