I can understand the Perfesser hating the litigator he refers to here, but we're not all bad. By the same logic, I should hate all securities and corporate lawyers for their egregious misconduct over Enron, and perhaps all law professors on account of Professor Kingsfield. Wait a minute… that's gone a bit far…

What irritates me about the whole thing is the obvious political grandstanding by Mr. Ritchie and his client. I think it no coincidence that it was filed in Tennessee; back in the heyday of obscenity trials over porn films, Memphis was the favored location for filing such suits, presumably because the jury pool would be pro-prosecution. It's a much better argument for courts actually enforcing Rule 11, since the states have failed so miserably in regulating the profession.