It happened in the first class of Civ Pro, which very well may have been the first class of my law school experience. The professor had just finished showing a clip from a Looney Tunes cartoon that had Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam - or was it Elmer Fudd? - in a property disupte. There was a line said by the varmint/wascawwy wabbit about taking his claim to the highest court in the land. The next scene was that of a courthouse sitting atop the peak of a mountain with the sign proclaiming it to be the highest court in the land. The videotape is stopped and the lights turned back on and my name is called. I was asked about why Bugs had said what he had said. The answer sought was that the wabbit would get his justice through the judicial system even if it meant pursuing his claim to the very end of that system. My reply? "Because that's the joke, it's funnier that way."
Afterwards, I thought to myself, being called on in law school isn't as bad as they make it out to be. Wasn't the first or the last time I was wrong.
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