This maybe not entirely funny thing from Lowering the Bar isn’t really about lawsuits. But it reminds me that once, while describing how (not) to find a lawyer, I related a tale about a friend of mine, who lives in D.C. but had trouble convincing a Michigan lawyer that D.C. was an adequate part of his address. That, no, he didn’t live in a state.
Here’s the Lowering the Bar story which, much less alarmingly, involves the ignorance of a TSA agent: “I Don’t Think We Accept These,” Says TSA Agent, Peering at D.C. License – Lowering the Bar.