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Calling the Clerk who worked on the Sean Connery lawsuit

By 4L

Unfortunately, this sort of thing hasn't made it to my desk yet, and I doubt it will. Nonetheless, it's pretty entertaining: Judge to Sean Connery, Neighbors: Stop Suing. And, if all you're looking for is the court opinion (dated December 7, 2007, by the way and the news story just broke today, so take that for what it's worth): Sultan v. Connery.

For those of you not knowledgeable about the appellate system in New York, the "Supreme" Court is a trial court and not a court of appeals (unlike most other states where the "Supreme Court" is the highest appellate court).

Basically, Sir Connery and his neighbors are a modern day Hatfield and McCoy when it comes to getting along. After a series of legal jabs at each other, a judge has finally stepped in to say that enough is enough. See Connery Battling Neighbor in Court (providing multiple links). See also Sir Sean Billed as 'Fat Old Man' and a 'Bond Villain' in Lawsuit. The opinion speaks for itself, and is short enough to read on your lunch break.

I will refrain from weighing in on it; however, I will say that a multitude of quotes came to mind when I saw this article. Most of them came from SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skits and Seinfeld episodes.

Links to the best two celebrity jeopardy episode transcripts are here and here. Other quotes from Jackie Chiles may also be moderately in this same vein of humor.

Full post as published by The Once and Future Lawyer on December 27, 2007 (boomark / email).