Being a mannequin citizen and an individual of style, you in all probability do not want this reminder, however some others do: Federal judges don’t prefer it when legal professionals electronically watermark each web page of their authorized PDFs with a big picture—purchased for $20 online—of a purple dragon sporting a go well with and tie. Not even when your agency’s title is “Dragon Attorneys.”
Federal Justice of the Peace Decide Ray Kent of the Western District of Michigan was unamused by a recent complaint (PDF) that prominently featured the aubergine wyrm.
“Every web page of plaintiff’s grievance seems on an e-filing which is dominated by a big multi-colored cartoon dragon wearing a go well with,” he wrote on April 28 (PDF). “Use of this dragon cartoon emblem shouldn’t be solely distracting, it’s juvenile and impertinent. The Courtroom shouldn’t be a cartoon.”
Kent then ordered “that plaintiff shall not file every other paperwork with the cartoon dragon or different inappropriate content material.”
Severely, do not do that.
The weird order generated protection throughout the authorized running a blog group, which was apparently ensorcelled by a spell requiring headline writers to make use of dragon-related puns, together with: