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VOL. 80 PART 3 MAY 2022
In 1990, Sir Edmund Hillary’s son Peter Hillary reached the top of Everest,
on his fourth attempt.
Mount Everest Law Chamber is located in Kathmandu.
“Injury-in-fact is not Mount Everest”, said then Circuit Judge Alito in Danvers
Motor Co., Inc. v. Ford Motor Co., 432 F.3d 286 (3d Cir. 2005).
Among popular church signs:
Whoever stole our AC units, please keep one
It is hot where you’re going
And at a different time of year:
If you are praying for snow
Please stop
The colours of Tibetan prayer flags have meaning, with blue representing
sky and space, red fire, white air or clouds, green water, and yellow earth.
Kami Rita Sherpa holds the record for the number of times to summit
Mount Everest. As of May 7, 2021, he had done so 25 times.
Mount Everest Law is a law firm in San Mateo, California. Among its practice
areas is dispute resolution: “Getting threatened by lawyers? Nasty attorney
letters? We can help to find an amicable resolution instead of going to
court.”
A litigant would probably rather not be faced with a “burden akin to summiting
Mount Everest in a winter storm”: United States ex rel. Bibby v. Mortgage
Invt. Corp., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 232351.
In Van Veen v. United States, 386 F.2d 462 (1967), the U.S. Court of Claims
upheld the patent claim of a Canadian plaintiff whose “survival-type sleeping
bags were used by the 1953 English Expedition that successfully
climbed Mount Everest. The leader of the expedition, Sir John Hunt,
reported that they were the warmest sleeping bags that he had used.”
Thought du mois:
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (1919–2008),
mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist