Employee spanking case

So I’m checking out the legal news tonight on cnn.com, and see a headline about an employee that’s suing because she was spanked at work.

Of course I open it (gotta keep up with that continuing legal education thing), expecting just another routine employment law case.

But it wasn’t routine. It was really, really weird.

The plaintiff’s attorney is named Butch, and the defense hired someone named Poncho.

Are these normal names for members of the California bar?

I feel so Midwestern.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/26/spanking.case.ap/index.html

Ever see the movie The Secretary?

Yup. Got it on DVD.

While I don’t know any other Poncho’s, I do know a couple other Butch’s who are lawyers. I’ve also known some Skips and Skippys, which are much more common.

'S okay, dude. You’re alright in my book. :wink:

You read a story about a ‘team building exercise’ that included the losers getting spanked, feed baby food and forced to wear diapers, and you find the names of the attorneys to the be the strange thing?

"Dear Penthouse,

I never believed your letters until now … "

Yup.

“Dear American Bar Association: I never believed your letters were real…”

Are you in NJ? One of the most powerful attorneys here is always referred to in print as Stephen “Skippy” Weinstein.

VCNJ~

I did use my briefs this morning.

And after the spankings, the oral sex.

Followed, of course, by the oral arguments.

Looking in the picture in the article, I can safely say that I would not want to hit that ass.

I was once on a flight, and the pilot announced his co-pilot was Rusty.

Not the sort of thing one should advertise, I thought.

I suppose. But pilots have a tradition that alllows nicknames. They’re almost required. Ace. Buzz. Boomer. Duke. Pappy.

Sort of like ballplayers or strippers. (No redundancy intended.)

And there’s nothing wrong with that. I just haven’t run into the same thing with lawyers. At least not in Illinois.

(Okay, that’s not true. I do know of some Illinois lawyers that have nicknames. Not ones that they’d use, though. Or even know about.)

Hmm. Now that I think about it, my hometown airport is named after a Butch.

And then, of course, a little moliter manus imposuit. :wink:

For the non-dorks:In a trespass action at common law, one is permitted to use a minimum level of force to eject a trespasser: moliter manus imposuit, or, he laid hands upon him gently. To those of us far too mature to giggle over comments about getting into each other’s briefs (yeah, I’m looking at you, SkipMagic), there was always a useful phrase when you saw a hottie: “moliter manus imposuit, baby!”
It’s true; law is the field for dorks who can’t do math.

My first thought upon reading this article was to divide my co-workers into “people I would like to have spank me” and “people whom I would sue if they spanked me”.

The second list was longer than the first. But boy oh boy, I could fantasize all day about the first list.

What, no Cisco?

The lawyer’s full name is given as K. Poncho Baker. That doesn’t really go together. Usually when a person uses a first initial and a middle name, the middle moniker is something more dignified than Ponch. You know, like C. Fenster McCandless III.

Hey, if a Rusty can be an Apollo astronaut, he sure as hell can pilot a piddly airliner.

It’s not the name, but the adjective. :wink: