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May 06, 2005
And the Court says, "Don't you dare use 'HOE' if you're talking about a 'HO!'"
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision on Wednesday that happened to contain what might be one of the greatest footnotes ever crafted. Judge Terence T. Evans, born in 1940, authored the court's opinion (and presumably the footnote).
“The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch ‘hoe.’ A ‘hoe,’ of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden’s response. We have taken the liberty of changing ‘hoe’ to ‘ho,’ a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps ‘You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.’”
I think the real question is whether Judge Evans was able to quote Ludcaris purely from memory or if the judge actually had to dig through his cd collection in order to find the family-friendly tune.
Comments
My link isn't working. What case is that?
Posted by: NYU Jew at May 19, 2005 06:40 PM
