First (Annual?) Appellate Practice Section Poetry Contest Winners
Winning Limericks
First Place
A Thankless Task
When the Court an opinion doth send –
Much considered and carefully penned,
Painstakingly crafted,
Repeatedly drafted –
The attorneys skip right to the end.
- Scott M. Ellsworth
Second Place
Though the issue was never preserved,
The appellate court thought it deserved
Full merits review,
But its merits were few,
So in the end justice was served.
Fred Voros
Third Place
An appellate lawyer in court
Filed briefs amazingly short
As you see from my diction
I speak legal fiction
No lawyers exist of that sort.
- Hon. Samuel McVey
Honorable Mention
The Scharf versus BMG Court1
First created the marshalling sport,
Reared upon the sound basis
Of four separate cases2 –
None of which mentions aught of the sort.
- Scott M. Ellsworth
WINNING Haikus
First Place
the unpreserved claim
hangs tempting as a dark plum
better brief merits
- Fred Voros
Second Place
black robes sullen suits
but there clasping counsel’s hair
a pink butterfly
- Fred Voros
Third Place
Really, I raised it.
You can find it on page two
Of footnote fifty.
- Scott Crook
Honorable Mention
Briefing
Cramming Niagara
Into a soda can – with
A one-inch margin.
- Scott M. Ellsworth
1. 700 P.2d 1068 (Utah 1985)
2. Charlton v. Hackett, 11 Utah 2d 389, 390, 360 P.2d 176 (1961); Hutcheson v. Gleave, Utah, 632 P.2d 815 (1981); Kohler v. Garden City, Utah, 639 P.2d 162, 165 (1981); and Hal Taylor Associates v. Union Am., Inc., Utah, 657 P.2d 743 (1982).