Friday, May 4, 2012

Get Out Your Rulers: Lawyers Spar Over Line Spacing

Spar Over Line Spacing

Lawyers, as good advocates, try to cram as several arguments as possible in their legal briefs, mainly when judges impose limits on how much they can say.However, one side in a trademark argument in Manhattan federal court involving The Gap Inc. says their adversary went a small too far.

In a back-and-forth series of letters last month, lawyers beginning Patterson Belknap Webb Tyler LLP accused lawyers from Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu PC which is representing the Gap of varying the line spacing on their reply brief to a motion for summary judgment to give them “about four additional lines per page.”

The letters were part of a request by the plaintiff to file five additional pages in their memorandum of law in a trademark dispute involving T-shirts labeled with the expression “Lower East Side” and “LES NYC.”The judge in the case, Paul A. Engelmayer, requires documents filed in cases earlier than him to be double spaced.

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