[Swordmaker]

This was a 5-4 decision with Justice Kagan in the minority, arguing that a FISH is a document. . . and citing Dr. Seuss as her source material. We HAVE followed Alice through the looking glass into Wonderland!

Supreme Court Justice Kagan uses Dr. Seuss in case argument

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times - Wednesday, February 25, 2015

When the Supreme Court announced its decision Wednesday on whether a fisherman should be charged under Wall Street regulatory laws, Justice Elena Kagan decided to include an unusual judicial argument: Dr. Seuss.

In 2007 in Florida, law enforcement officials confronted fisherman John Yates, saying he had caught several red groupers that were too small. Mr. Yates then tossed the fish overboard. But he was charged under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which sought to punish the destruction of physical evidence in wake of the Enron scandal where accountants shredded thousands of documents.

In a 5-4 decision announced Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the law was meant to apply only to records or information documents.

But in her dissent, Justice Kagan argued that fish should be included in the “tangible object” category of evidence the law describes.

“A fish is, of course, a discrete thing that possesses physical form,” she wrote. “See generally Dr. Seuss, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960).”

During oral arguments in November, things sometimes took a turn for the absurd, as justices debated the legal nature of fish and whether a fish could count as a record if information was carved into its scales.

We are in a race to find the most insane decisions from this once august body. . . four of them are certifiable.

My girlfriend and I created this proposed addendum for the IDC-10, the listing of disease codes, because they obviously forgot to include it when they did the update from the IDC-9 back in October from 17,000 diagnostic codes to over 155,000:

321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.

[Cowboy Bob]

I know you can shred pork...not sure about fish.

[Stanwood_Dave]

Yes, it's obvious, even to the most casual observer, Justice (or is that JUST-US, I do get confused) Kagan is infected with Cranium Rectal Disorder, and in need of a glass-ectomy.

A glass-ectomy is when you cut your bellybutton out and put a piece of glass in there so when you have your head up your arse, you can see where you’re going.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Come on. If there’s one thing Kagan knows about it’s shredding fish ;)

[Lurking Libertarian]

This was a 5-4 decision with Justice Kagan in the minority, arguing that a FISH is a document.

Kagan was arguing not that a fish is a document, but that it is a "tangible object." Her dissent was joined by Justices Scalia and Thomas. The majority opinion is by Ginsburg.