Posted by Eugene Volokh: Guy Montag Doe: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_12_14-2008_12_20.shtml#1229628539
It turns out that the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the San Francisco public housing gun ban bears the pseudonym Guy Montag Doe, obviously a reference to the protagonist in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Pretty amusing, though not quite as apt as if this were a lawsuit challenging the destruction of books. This makes me wonder: What other rhetorical pseudonyms have there been in litigation? I set aside otherwise amusing pseudonyms, such as [1]William Woe and Xerxes Xoe, and want to focus on the ones chosen for their rhetorical force. References 1. http://volokh.com/posts/chain_1126731388.shtml _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
