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spidey-jury

Okay, so above is the cover of Spider-Man: The Arachnis Project #3, published back in 1994.  The cover boldly proclaims: “The Jury is in and the verdict for Spider-Man is death.” Well, Spider-Man is certainly not in a courtroom. According to Wikipedia, “[t]he Jury is a fictional group of armored vigilantes in the Marvel Comics universe.” Get it? They’re armed vigilantes, and they call themselves “The Jury.” Sigh. In light of that, we suppose the cover above depicts Spider-Man exercising his peremptory challenges. Yes, you read that right. We tried to make a joke about a comic book vigilante group called The Jury. We’re sorry about that.

On a more serious note, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina recently issued the following notice about its local rules:

The Local Civil and Criminal Rules for this district were amended effective August 20, 2014.  The amendments include numerous stylistic changes including changes to capitalization, punctuation, citation form, and sentence structure.  Two rules were modified substantively:  Local Civil Rule 83.I.07 (Withdrawal of Appearance); and Local Civil Rule 83.VII.07 (Application for Attorney Fees [in Social Security cases]).

The amended rules as well as redlined comparisons of the most recent amendments to the November 15, 2013 versions of the Local Civil and Criminal Rules are available on the court’s website (http://www.scd.uscourts.gov) under the “What’s New” and “Rules” tabs.

We have to hand it to the Popehat Twitter account, which has perfectly captured the ennui of Star Wars fans of a certain age in the tweet below. As you might guess from our posts here and here, we are sympathetic.

Finally, we hope everyone has an eventful and safe holiday weekend. We here at Abnormal Use will be watching college football.

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