Devito v. UNITED STATES, DEPT. OF JUSTICE, ETC.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

American courts, as dispute resolution forums, place upon litigants the burden to persuade. 1 Often this jurisprudential system forces judges, as arbiters, to rule in favor of either one litigant who urges strict, literal or general application of a law or legal principle as opposed to another litigant who pleads for a spirited or broad interpretation or a specific exception thereto. 2 In some situations the accepted legal principle clashes with the equities thereof and produces seemingly inhumanitarian results. 3 Other times, as in the case sub…