Secrets

New York's Appellate Division ruled that the Office of Court Administration must turn over internal memos offering legal guidance to judges, ending roughly five years of litigation over documents whose contents remain officially unknown. The column's author offers a satirical guess at what such guidance might contain, from gift etiquette to dress codes, none of it sourced to the actual memos.

Separately, a North Carolina federal judge's opinion describes a loan foreclosure case whose Second Amended Complaint ran 166 pages and 965 paragraphs, with claims nested inside claims inside claims across roughly 50 sub-causes of action. The judge dismissed the case without prejudice, leaving open the possibility of an even more elaborate refiling.

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