Sacré bleu! Here is a bonne bouche courtesy of the United States District Court for the Middle District of California.

This is the sort of recherché legal question that apparently clogs the dockets of California federal courts, entertains law students and their professors and confirms for every non-lawyer that both the courts and the legal profession have only a soupçon of common sense.

Notwithstanding the recognition of sang-froid by the district judge, I shudder to think of how many billable hours went into this one.

Thanks to Letters from the Bostonian Exile for the link.