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Non-Sequiturs: 07.20.07

Dodgeball Thelen Reid Abovethelaw Above the Law blog.jpg* She was listed in the NYT wedding announcements as an HLS magna grad -- and would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids! [Jossip] [FN1]

* Don't dress up in a giant pink bunny suit and hang out by a bank, unless you want to get yo'self tasered. [FourthAmendment.com]

* Thelen kicks O'Melveny's ass -- in dodgeball. [Legal Pad]

* Not worth a separate post, but here's a link, plus a comment: "Dickie C is taking the reigns while GW gets poked in the anus. What's funny about this is how the media reports this as news. As if Dick isn't always in control." [AFP]

[FN1] In response to an email we received: our tagline is tongue-in-cheek. We have no reason to doubt the Times's explanation that the magna mistake resulted from "an editing error," and not any attempt at deception by the bride.

(Jeez, people, you need to lighten up a bit...)

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, July 20, 2007 4:42 PM

Hey, thanks for the quote in the post! I've truly made it as an ATL commentator!

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, July 20, 2007 4:44 PM

Won't you post an open thread on the massive XOXO pwnage for the weekend? It looks like someone tried to hack the site right before the bar and got caught red-handed. A friend of yours nonetheless.

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3 Posted by anon | Permalink Friday, July 20, 2007 4:47 PM

Why talk about XO on ATL? Why not just talk about it on XO? Wouldn't that make more sense?

Until XO gets its ass sued again in federal court, don't expect Lat to write about it.

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4 Posted by Anonymous | Permalink Friday, July 20, 2007 4:50 PM

Wow, anonymous - prolific and now quoted!

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, July 20, 2007 4:58 PM

Mark my words, the president will cede power for good. This was the plan all along by Dickie C

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, July 20, 2007 5:07 PM

Is there a lawyers athletic league in Los Angeles.

I kick ass at dodge ball. And that is the only sport I could actually compete in...

/last picked...always

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7 Posted by The Dance! | Permalink Friday, July 20, 2007 6:06 PM

This is the best video I have ever seen in my life. It's sort of law related, right? I mean the judicial system prosecuted these fabulous dancers, right?

http://dlisted.com/node/12891

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, July 20, 2007 9:37 PM

In the longer version of the article re: Bush's colon blow, it says that Dick took over for "2 hours" during the 2002 presidential probing. Yeah if by "2 hours" you mean 6 years.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Saturday, July 21, 2007 4:54 AM

The NY Times writes the wedding items. You just provide information. They could easily have made the mistake. Jossip could have at least called the NY Times before they called her a liar on the WORLD WIDE internet.

Wow. Ordinary lawyers as the objects of made up tabloid gossip. I love it. Too bad their pics didn't feature an underwearless couple.

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10 Posted by Man | Permalink Saturday, July 21, 2007 7:01 AM

white girls with asian guys, man. wgwag

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Saturday, July 21, 2007 11:13 AM

I agree that the jossip thing was a low blow.

I mean, if you read the piece with a finetooth comb, you can see that there's absolutely no reason to believe that it's anything but the Times' making a typo. Jesus, the BRIDE could have told them it was a mistake.

But all the shitty innuendo on the part of Jossip makes it look like there's a story!

It's just kind of a nasty move.

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12 Posted by J | Permalink Saturday, July 21, 2007 7:15 PM

Jossip's editors should retract that piece. There is simply no basis to accuse this woman of lying or hyping her resume. First, she doesn't need to. Her resume speaks for itself, regardless of whether she finished magna at HLS. Second, NY Times took blame for the mistake. NY Times would not haven taken blame for the mistake if it believed that it had been lied to. It would have simply retracted the erroneous statement and said it wasn't true.

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:08 AM

I think this was almost certainly an editing error. Chances are, the bride submitted something to the Times that indicated she graduated "magna cum laude from Harvard College and from Harvard Law School." The bride intended it to mean that her honors applied only to the first degree, but the editor at the Times interpreted it as applying to both.

I actually have the identical degrees and honors as the bride, and remember struggling to make sure my own wedding announcement (not in the Times, alas) was acurrate. I would not be surprised if the bride herself asked for the correction.

Jossip should retract and apologize.

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:09 AM

I think this was almost certainly an editing error. Chances are, the bride submitted something to the Times that indicated she graduated "magna cum laude from Harvard College and from Harvard Law School." The bride intended it to mean that her honors applied only to the first degree, but the editor at the Times interpreted it as applying to both.

I actually have the identical degrees and honors as the bride, and remember struggling to make sure my own wedding announcement (not in the Times, alas) was accurate. I would not be surprised if the bride herself asked for the correction.

Jossip should retract and apologize.

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:53 PM

You expect high-quality journalism, not to mention a retraction, from a blog called "Jossip"? Heh.

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16 Posted by Anon | Permalink Monday, July 23, 2007 10:59 AM

I love how Jossip says that "all we know for sure" is PRECISELY what we don't know for sure. You don't need to read the piece with a fine-toothed comb to see that there's no basis to suspect foul play.

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17 Posted by Anon Amok | Permalink Monday, July 23, 2007 1:19 PM

Lat, if you'd like a better example of an NY Times wedding announcement spoiled by meddling kids, peep the correction attached your beloved Tisch wedding from many months back...

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