9/21/2004 04:26:25 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

The most humorous part of this story, if there is one, is the concept of "French justice."

|||109580204567801470|||French Intransigence9/23/2004 10:22:17 AM|||Anonymous|||Either you are a well educated lawyer and you're letting your racism blind you to truths you know full well, or you're a badly educated lawyer and are not aware of the influence of the Napoleonic code on post revolutionary US Jurisprudence.

Either way, throwaway "If it's French it must suck..." type comments are nothing more than racism playing to the fools gallery.

-S9/23/2004 02:45:45 PM|||Nathan Moore|||Or, perhaps, the third option is that I have a sense of humor (hint, hint), and current French foreign policy has made a habit of coddling the most reprehensible of governments. Recent French history (post-Napoleon, but that's debatable)is not something to be proud of.

As to the other point, if you lived in Louisiana, you'd certainly be right. The rest of us, save matters in the federal courts (there is, of course, allegedly no federal common law), still live in a decidedly common law system.

And hey, not everything French is bad - they make good wine, and cheese.

Regards,
Nathan