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There is an old vaudeville sketch by Billy K. Wells in which a judge orders a man to pay a $2 fine for spitting on the subway, but the man's fast-talking lawyer insists on fighting the modest fine. As the case is vigorously argued, the irritated judge imposes greater and greater sentences as the hapless man desperately pleads to his heedless lawyer, "Pay the two dollars!"
This brings us to the recently published 9th Circuit opinion in Ve...
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