United States v. Hayes

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

This judge has never written an opinion using the personal pronoun. I have always used the traditionally formal and somewhat stilted language, “this court,” to describe myself. This case, however, peculiarly lends itself to a deviation from this norm. The personal pronoun will therefore be used hereinafter in order to avoid any possible implication that what I am saying represents the thinking of the entire bench of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Some of its judges may agree. Others may not.

In the above-entitled…