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Rock, paper, scissors

Fed up with listening to two lawyers bicker for weeks over where to interview a witness in a civil lawsuit, US district judge Gregory Presnell decided to set a precedent by ordering the pair to settle the matter with a game of scissors, paper, stone…He decreed that at 4pm on June 30, David Pettinato and L Craig Lee would leave their rhetorical skills in court and rely instead on their powers of prediction and digital manipulation to resolve the argument…
The USA Rock Paper Scissors League described the decree as “a positive moment for the world” and offered to send representatives to referee the confrontation. “We will make sure that rock, paper scissors is not made a mockery of by the legal system,”

(_From The Guardian Unlimited, thanks to Anne for the link._)

pax et bonum