Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “• Gail’s attempt to avoid any burden at all from her great bounty (it is assumed that no one would even try to argue that receiving title to $100,000 in unencumbered property without paying the giver a penny for it constitutes a “great bounty”), is shockingly greedy, to put it bluntly. • Gail continues to not only want her pound of flesh from Shirley, but wants all of the blood associated with it. • Gail’s greed is stunningly bold. • Then, to make certain that her fangs are fully bared for all to see, Gail hurls yet another dose of acidic bile at Shirley. Gail accuses Shirley of criminal misconduct ... Perhaps Gail plans to have Shirley arrested, and hauled from the courtroom on March 27 in shackles, too. • Gail’s arguments on these matters are so utterly fallacious, groundless, and frivolous, that they constitute plain violations of Rule 11. • Gail’s despicable greed should not be rewarded. • Gail’s ... adamant persistence in trying to make Shirley accountable, belies an active, rancid animosity against Shirley which not only defies logic but apparently knows no bounds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Discipline of Eicher