Legal Opinion
Ramirez-Alejandre v. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 13, 2003No. 00-70724PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge Thomas; Dissent by Judge Trott.
OPINION
THOMAS, Circuit Judge.
In the book Bang the Drum Slowly, members of the fictional New York Mammoths amused themselves by drawing in dupes with a card scam known as “Teg-war,” which was an acronym for “The Exciting Game Without Any Rules.” Mark Harris, Bang the DRUM Slowly 8 (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.1956). The mark, lured into the game by the players’ enthusiasm, would be given a handful of cards and encouraged to make wild bids using a weird vocabulary of calls that changed from round to round. Id. at 48, 60-64. The poor cluck would always…
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