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Today in History: Enter the Simpsons

By Rebekah

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Happy Birthday, Bart! And Lisa, and Marge, and Homer, and Maggie, and Santa’s Little Helper. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the premier of cartoon sitcom “The Simpsons.”

Law and pop culture intersect frequently, and over the years The Simpsons have appeared in various contexts in the courtrooms of America – from knock-off t-shirts (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. Accent New York (S.D.N.Y., January 10, 1992, No. 90 CIV. 7819 (PKL)) to formation of a contract (Seawright v. American General Financial Services, Inc., 507 F.3d 967 (6th Cir. 2007)) to public apprehension over new telephone area codes (New York & Public Service Com?n of New York v. F.C.C., 267 F.3d 91 (2nd Cir. 2001).

To see more of The Simpsons? legal antics, go to your favorite online database service and run The Simpsons as a search query. If you need help, visit your friendly reference librarians.

(RKM)

Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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