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VOL. 80 PART 2 MARCH 2022
In the copyright context, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Missouri noted that “it is the aria from Puccini as sung by Pavarotti at
Kennedy Center and the performance of Aida at the Metropolitan and the
football game between the Cardinals and another team that the television
viewers take delight in and not the inserted commercials”: National Football
League v. McBee & Bruno’s, 621 F. Supp. 880 (1985).
Jennifer J.L. Brun, Q.C., Lisa Hamilton, Q.C., and Krista Simon were
appointed to the Supreme Court Civil and Family Rules Committee for fiveyear
terms ending December 31, 2026. Maureen Lundell, Q.C., and Lindsay
LeBlanc were reappointed for three-year terms as members at large.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury concerns a lawsuit for breach of promise
of marriage. It is set in a “court of justice” that, though the opera premiered
in 1875, seems to have certain similarities to the courts of today. It begins
with the chorus:
Hark, the hour of ten is sounding;
Hearts with anxious fears are bounding,
Hall of Justice crowds surrounding,
Breathing hope and fear –
…
From bias free of every kind,
This trial must be tried.
Jazz musician, bird watcher, cartoonist and curmudgeonly radio host
Humphrey Lyttleton (1921–2008) once described the peculiar feeling one gets
coming up with a witticism 24 hours too late. He told of being interviewed in
Scotland by someone who asked him about his interest in “orthinology”
(rather than ornithology). The interviewer kept mispronouncing the word
throughout the interview. The next day, driving back to London, Humph realized
he should have said: “not so much an ‘orthinologist’ as a word botcher.”
Jennifer R.S. Glougie was appointed as a member and the chair of the
Employment Standards Tribunal and as chair of the Labour Relations Board
for terms ending February 5, 2025.
In Saudi v. Acomarit Maritimes Services, S.C., 245 F. Supp. 2d 662 (2003), the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania noted that “in
Wagner’s opera, The Flying Dutchman, the hero, a ship captain, is consigned
by fate to sail the seas in virtual perpetuity and may land only once every
seven years. Wagner’s opera sets to music an ancient legend; its modern
incarnation are the ocean-going supertankers, which are so large, they can-