Vol. 56 No. 2
Trial Magazine
Hearsay
The lighter side of the law
February 2020“We like to say, ‘There isn’t a plastic ceiling that Barbie hasn’t broken.’”
Senior Vice President and Global Brand General Manager of Barbie, Lisa McKnight, on Mattel’s “Judge Barbie.” Mattel released its 2019 “Career of the Year” doll after learning about the underrepresentation of women in state court judiciaries.
“Their coloring skills are kind of on point but not good enough to sneak past a Snohomish County Trooper!”
Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Heather Axtman on a driver who had colored in expired vehicle tags to avoid the state’s vehicle registration requirement.
“The ducks have won.”
Dominique Douthe—a farmer from Soustons, France—after a court rejected her new neighbors’ noise complaint about her 60 ducks and geese. The court said the quacking was “within acceptable limits.
