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Judge Your Coffee in Coffee Circuit Court?

In Alabama.

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Unfortunately, the reality is quite boring—it's just the court in Coffee County. (There's also one in Coffee County, Tennessee, but that's usually called the Coffee County Circuit Court.) The county is apparently named after one John Coffee, and the surname supposedly comes from "the old Gaelic O'Cobhthaigh," which sounds more like coughing than coffee to me.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.