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“Apples and Oreos” joins “crops or critters” in the Cuéllar oeuvre

July 9, 2018

Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar might be the current court member most likely to turn a memorable phrase.  Besides employing Homeric and Shakespearean references, Justice Cuéllar last year paraphrased a statute as defining grand theft to include stealing “more than $250 worth of the crops or critters” listed in the statute.

A week ago in the Yelp caseHassell v. Bird — Justice Cuéllar was at it again.  In his dissent, he criticized a comparison in the plurality opinion as being “a contrast between apples and oranges — or apples and Oreos, for that matter.”

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