Say What?!


"Real-life Texas courtroom humor ... most of which comes straight from actual depositions and trials."

Author: U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer writes the "et cetera" column for the Texas Bar Journal.

Blawg Related Categories: Trials & Litigation • States • Texas • Judge • Humor

Recent Posts from Say What?!


  • December 1996 - The Court Reporters Have Done It Again!Lynn Brooks of Dallas, who is (among other things) the book review editor of the Journal of Court Reporters, writes:Court: To the charge of driving while…

  • October 1993 - Number One Easy StreetFrom Hollis Horton of Beaumont (Orgain, Bell, etc.), this excerpt from the plaintiff's deposition in a workers' compensation case - which was settled, "sometime after the deposition, for an…

  • September 1993 - More From the Buchmeyer TrialsFrom an environmental criminal trial (the charges were illegal dumping of hazardous wastes):Q. Isn't it a fact that ABC Corporation converted to non-lead glaze in 1990 - two…

  • November 2000 - Did They Really Say That?From Bruce D. Bain of Tyler (Bain, Files, Jarrett & Bain), this "rather unique definition" of the term "tangible things" in Interrogatories served on Bruce's female client in…

  • January 1996 - East Texas SlangFrom Raymond W. Cozby, III of Tyler (Cowles & Thompson), this closing argument made by his brother, Andrew J. Cozby, the prosecutor in a criminal trial in Houston:Mr. Cozby: Members…

  • October 1995 - Did They Really Say That?Q. You are absolutely sure of that?A. I'm positive of that, sir, I think.___Q. Do you know of any witnesses to the accident?A. Well, none except the ones…

  • July 1994 - A Tendency to RambleFrom William T. Little of Houston (Gilpin, Paxson & Bersch), this excerpt form the plaintiff's deposition in a personal injury case - with the warning that the witness was…

  • September 1993 - Did I Really Hear That?From J. Burke McCormick of Richmond, VA (Little, Parsley & Cluverius), this excerpt from a deposition he took "in a construction lawsuit between the developer of a large…

  • November 1994 - The Cheapest Chickens in TownFrom Jaki Jones of Houston (Jaki is the secretary of Philip S. Gordon of Gustafon & Venzke), these excerpts from the deposition of Mrs. Jimmie Johnson - the…

  • October 1997 - The Trial: State Your Name PleaseFrom Kathryn M. Kase, of Albany, N.Y. (who "used to be a Texas lawyer"), this excerpt from a murder case tried by her and Terence L. Kindlon,…