Posted by Jonathan Adler:
McDermott Lawyer's McGaffe:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_05_27-2007_06_02.shtml#1180614081
From Daily Business Review, [1]via Law.com, comes the story of a
lawyer's "super-size" gaffe and its consequences.
Saying a bankruptcy judge was "a few french fries short of a Happy
Meal" may cost an out-of-state lawyer the ability to practice in
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.
The comment already has cost Chicago-based McDermott Will & Emery
partner William P. Smith his client -- Miami Beach's Mount Sinai
Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute.
Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff in Miami also slapped the
hospital with a restraining order at the same hearing where Smith
made his fast-food quip. She found Mount Sinai's anti-competitive
actions in the bankruptcy case of South Beach Community Hospital
violated bankruptcy law.
During a May 7 hearing, Smith told Isicoff, "I suggest with
respect, your honor, that you're a few french fries short of a
Happy Meal in terms of what's likely to take place."
References
1. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1180515925030
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