Judges and Judiciary
May 3, 2000
Chimerical Judicial Conundrums
It was Monday morning and Judge Learned Foote sang to himself as he trundled down the hall to his chambers, lugging his briefcase crammed full of motions he had taken home that weekend and not read. If you had been there, you would have heard him singing, "Tum te tum te tum te dum and little tum de ivy. A diddle de dum de doo wouldn't you."
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
UNDER SUBMISSION
It was Monday morning and Judge Learned Foote sang to himself as he trundled down the hall to his chambers, lugging his briefcase crammed full of motions he had taken home that weekend and not read. If you had been there, you would have heard him singing, "Tum te tum te tum te dum and little tum de ivy. A diddle de dum de doo wouldn't you."
He glanced at his watch and to his dismay noticed it was a few minutes past 9 a...