Labor/Employment
Feb. 1, 2001
Sweat Expression
Anomalies in the law tend to attract our attention. The municipal ordinance that makes it illegal to walk a pig on the left side of the street on Sunday is the stuff on which comedians tend to focus in order to show that the law is, in Charles Dickens' phrase, "a ass - a idiot."
Charles S. Doskow
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
Email: dosklaw@aol.com
Harvard Law School
Charles is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and in 2012 was awarded the chapter's Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution award.
Anomalies in the law tend to attract our attention. The municipal ordinance that makes it illegal to walk a pig on the left side of the street on Sunday is the stuff on which comedians tend to focus in order to show that the law is, in Charles Dickens' phrase, "a ass - a idiot."
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