How about a litigation battle over . . . what "double-spacing" means?
66 pages of motions, oppositions, declarations (including one from Typography-for-Lawyers guru Matt Butterick!), & ruler-laden exhibits all over whether "double-space" means 24 points or 28.
1/5 #legalwriting
I prompted ChatGPT-4 to summarize the parties' key arguments in this pressing matter.
2/5
#AI
Emotions ran high.
3/5
On the merits, the accused double-spacing violators wielded both a ruler and a Matt Butterick declaration.
4/5
It was a hard-fought battle, but in the end, the district court judge cleared the Plaintiffs of the charge of double-spacing shenanigans.
One way the election litigation could do good: a national moment of silence in which all 330 million of us UNCHECK THE SPELL-CHECK BOX THAT SAYS IGNORE WORDS IN UPPERCASE washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Other inspirational reminders, in the @Atul_Gawande Checklist Manifesto style: Match the right corporate-naming-rights-for-cash venue to the right city.
Justice Gorsuch manages to pack a lot of #gorsuchstyle into tonight's one-paragraph dissent. He shows personality and verve in his potshot at Vegas and hedonism and in the final sentence (the Caesars Palace/ Calvary Chapel quip brilliantly distills all three dissents). 1/
Yet even in just a single paragraph he can't resist overexplaining. "The large numbers are fine" point is redundant, and it sucks the life out of the compelling contrast between the huddling craps and roulette players and the banned religious services. "Show, don't tell." 2/
And yes, even in this lone paragraph you can see his idiosyncratic syntax. Not sure exactly what he was going for after the dash, but I think he means something like "no matter HOW LARGE the building, HOW DISTANT the individuals, or HOW PERVASIVE the masks. 3/