Judge Carnes vs. Magistrate Judge Goodman -- The Citation Wars.

Here you go, the trademark Carnes introduction (with a homage/challenge? to Magistrate Judge Goodman):

People who compete against each other in the same business or profession don’t have to dislike one another. A few years back there was even a song lyricizing about “Lawyers in Love.” But no one has ever written a song about “Car Dealers in Love,” and if this case is any indication, no one ever will. These two car dealers are bitter business rivals in overlapping markets. One of them used a software program to compete more aggressively with the other one over the internet. That program produced a multiplicity of mini-websites, a host of hard feelings, and of course litigation. This is the appellate part of that litigation.

Very curious -- note how the Judge casually, unobtrusively cites the great Jackson Browne song "Lawyers in Love" without an elaborate, digressive 300-plus long footnote/citation/educational string.

Now let's edit in a standard Magistrate Judge Goodman song reference and see how it reads:

People who compete against each other in the same business or profession  don’t have to dislike one another. A few years back there was even a song lyricizing about “Lawyers in Love.”1 But no one has ever written a song about “Car Dealers in Love,” and if this case is any indication, no one ever will. These two car dealers are bitter business rivals in overlapping markets. One of them used a software program to compete more aggressively with the other one over the internet. That program produced a multiplicity of mini-websites, a host of hard feelings, and of course litigation. This is the appellate part of that litigation.

1 -- For a musical reference to "lawyers being in love," see "Lawyers in Love," a song sung by Jackson Browne. Recorded in Los Angeles, the song was written by Jackson Browne and reached the #13 position on the U.S. music charts in the summer of 1983.  http://www.allmusic.com/song/lawyers-in-love-mt0005091017 (last visited June 21, 2012). Focused on Cold War concerns and a distrust of the perceived superficial, empty values of the Reagan Era, the song contains the following lyric: "God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves To the mating calls of lawyers in love" http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/jackson_browne/lawyers_in_love.html (last visited June 21, 2012).

Hmm, which do you like better?