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The response from CCDH is savage -
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Letter-to-A.-Spiro-from-R.-Kaplan-re-CCDH.pdf
I love it. The gist is:
It's a textbook example of "no u" in grown up language. Bravo.
Not to mention how it starts with
They are not taking any BS. I love it.
Legal snark is by far the most expensive brand of humor, but when it's deployed on your behalf it's so goddamn satisfying.
During a hearing in my divorce, I answered a question from the judge, the other lawyer says "we can't have hearsay in this discussion", my lawyer responds "well this will be a short hearing then because everything in your client's motion is hearsay".
That little snap cost me about $15 but it was worth it.
I trust that you've read this one?
Bad link
It's direct to a PDF (maybe shows in 'downloaded documents' for Android, or download menu in Connect?) but for anyone on a device that doesn't like PDFs, the link was The Onion's amicus filed with the US Supreme Court (summarised in newspapers)
The best part of it:
Now that is a nuclear statement in a lawyers letter...
I love that this is a legal letter and yet contains the very direct phrase:
Savage indeed !!