Florida Supreme Court To Define Sex
The Supreme Court Of Florida is set to issue a ruling to define something that you’d think most people know about already.
You’d think that would be easy enough to figure out, but you know what happens when you get the lawyers involved.
It’ll start with, “The process that makes babies,” but then some pedant will go, “What about uterine implantation?” And it will go downhill from there, forever.
Clinton will be vindicated won’t he?
Let me tell you ’bout the contracts and the torts and the common and the statute …
Well, lawyers have so many different ways to screw people, you really need to be specific… 🙂
Well, it’s pretty obvious that when this sort of stuff gets started, it’s because a lot of people have different definitions of it. If you look at the article, you’ll see this boils down to an attempted defense that “sex between two lesbians isn’t sex.” (the Queen Victoria defense, I guess.)
We end up writing down legal bright lines when during law cases we discover that the “well, everybody knows what X is” actually doesn’t hold.
Think of Markman hearings and claim interpretation, Doug.
@Doug:
I can help, I’ll write the opinion myself.
This is my considered legal opinion:
“If you have to ask…”
During the Clinton hearings, my husband came up with a definition that I still hold to: If there’s an orgasm involved, it’s sex.
@pylon: depends, they’ll have to rule on what “is” is!
“I know it when I see it.” -Potter Stewart
Two words: “pet. granted”