First (annual?) Appellate Practice Section Poetry Contest Winners

• Publication year: 2007
• Pages: 5
• Citation: Vol. 20 No. 7 Pg. 5

Utah Bar Journal Volume 20.

Vol. 20, No. 7, 5. First (Annual?) Appellate Practice Section Poetry Contest Winners

Utah Bar Journal
Vol. 20, No. 7
November/December 2007

First (Annual?) Appellate Practice Section Poetry Contest Winners

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...