Judge Won’t Stand for Being Jerked Around

Just a quick note to call your attention to the fact that Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will not stand for being jerked around. One can deduce this from her September 21 order (see below) in Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney, a copyright case pending before her. Well, I guess it wouldn’t be a “deduction” because she expressly said it: “I will not stand for being jerked around—and I am indeed being jerked around—in this manner by any lawyer who practices before me.” So her feelings on the topic of being jerked around seem entirely clear, actually. Note: I would not interpret the phrase “in this manner” to suggest that Judge McMahon might stand for being jerked around if the jerkage took some other form. In context, it seems clear that she was simply referring to her strongly held opinion that she was indeed being jerked around in this particular case; that is, that what the lawyer had been doing there constituted jerking her around.…