Clare Locke's Letter to Twitter About Suspension of @TheOvalPawffice

(Clare Locke LLP is one of the top plaintiff's-side libel law firms, though this isn't a libel case.)

The best dog-gone legal demand letter you'll see today…. #Gipper pic.twitter.com/4UsZTQTBow

— Clare Locke LLP (@ClareLockeLLP) February 23, 2021

You can read it starting here.

Comments

[santamonica811]

Q: Why did the cowboy-lawyer buy a Dachshund?
A: Because he wanted to get a-long, little doggie.

[ThePublius]

Prof. Volokh, maybe I'm not twitter-savy enough, but I can't read the damn letter. The only view of It I can get is of images where the characters are just at the threshold of my ability to resolve.

[MatthewSlyfield]

Nothing to do with Twitter. The letter in the tweet is two images, one for each page.

On Chrome, right click on the image and you should see a menu option to open image in a new tab. On Firefox it would be view image.

[ThePublius]

Thanks Matthew. I did that for the first two pages - it's actually four pages long - but it was more tedious to read it this way than my level of interest could tolerate. 🙂 (It required that I save the images, open each on in sequence, enlarge them to read, etc....)

[MatthewSlyfield]

The open image in new tab (view image on FF) does not require you to save the image.

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For Firefox:

Click on the page 1 image. You get just that image, with forward and backward arrows on the right and left. The print is too small for my tired eyes, so I right click, "view image", and click near the top to expand to full size. When I'm done, ALT-LEFT or clicking the left arrow in the top bar goes back to the twitter image with thr forward/backward arrows; click the right one to go to page 2.

[Dr. Ed 2]

If I got a letter like that, on a law firm's letterhead, I'd send it to the bar association. It's about as funny as a false fire alarm.

Now if it wasn't on the law firm's letterhead, didn't use the word "client" and a few similar things -- that would be a different story. But this is implying that the dog is either an attorney or is working under the supervision of one (i.e. paralegal). As that is not true, this is a bar rule violation.

It's like the "Blue Hill Volcano" joke -- that a long-extinct volcano near Boston was erupting. It stopped being funny when a woman released her horses out onto a busy 8-lane highway...

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Hill_eruption_prank

[Noscitur a sociis]

While I can readily believe that you're stupid enough to think that pretending you were deceived into thinking that a dog wrote the letter would be a smart response, I'm dubious that anyone at Twitter is.

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It's nothing like spreading fake news about a volcano. Just how important do you think Twitter is, anyway, and why do you think email to a specific person at Twitter is in anyway comparable to a TV station broadcast?

[Krayt]

The dog claims the man is his client. Many professions have clients. Your barber could send a letter complaining for you.

At the end, the dog lists his pedigree -- Juris Dogtor, with a BA in Obedience.

Not seeing anything a law bar would have dominion over.

[Bored Lawyer]

Well, not disbarring, anyway. Maybe enfocring some applicable laws. Like the pooper-scooper laws.

[santamonica811]

"Go fetch the subpoena! Good boy! Who's a good lawyer? Yes you are! Yes you are!!!"

[MachineGunBodine]

Well, on Sunday this unfunny account began weighing in on the Ducklo affair. The fake dog account obviously sided with Ducklo, even his inappropriate responses. The fake dogs were lavishing praise on Ducklo & his gal pal, and kept insisting that Ducklo was a nice guy and the cancer made him do it.

The worst part of the whole incident was that the fake dog account kept using pathetic, unfunny dog puns to discuss a real situation. I almost cringed myself to the ER.
t.ly/jlhe
https://is.gd/qmazHL

[Kazinski]

Ok, I see now. The parody account obviously needed to be censored because you cringed.

When I read the tweet though, I'm filled with awe, you have a world class cringe reflex.

[MachineGunBodine]

So you think this is even mildly funny?
https://is.gd/GzQRi7

Talking in childlike puns about a serious incident is oh so cutesy. My guess is that it was supposed to be the standard Biden-fluff until someone decided to politicize the shit out of it it and the administration was none too pleased and had it suspended.

[M L]

Cringe.

[ReaderY]

It’s in many ways sad that in what is supposedly a free society, people are so powerless and those who hold their leashes so powerful that they have to beg like...like dogs, simply to be allowed to go about their business.

The letter’s cuteness is in part an acknowledgement of complete helplessness, a humble servesnt sincerely hoping that the master will be amused and thereby take pity on him.

In a free society, people don’t beg like this.

[MachineGunBodine]

There is nothing cute about any of this. The Biden's dogs obviously feel strongly that Ducklo shouldn't have been fired. The degradation continue apace. And the unfunny puns should be actionable.

[MatthewSlyfield]

"And the unfunny puns should be actionable."

File a complaint with the High Puncil of Punnsylvania and if your complaint is determined to be meritorious, the guilty shall be pun-ished.

[MatthewSlyfield]

Says you. Humor, like beauty is in the aye of the bee holder.

[Bored Lawyer]

OUCH. That stings!

[santamonica811]

Stop with the bad puns. You don't wanna be pollen on that thread.

[Bored Lawyer]

He likes the buzz.

[santamonica811]

Or, he breaks out in hives.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

The Volokh Conspiracy has decided it now likes -- rather than bans -- parody?

Did this parody account bash liberals, or is this a genuine change of heart?

I suppose any progress from the right-wing side of the aisle should be welcome.

[Journey2theWest]

Love seeing progress from the right wing, even though it's not much it's still something. Growth is wonderful and seeing it in America is a great thing. We need to be a more united nation.