¡¯Tis the holiday season, meaning joy and happiness and disagreement and litigation. In other words, it¡¯s time for this year¡¯s dispatches from the Christmas wars.
Let¡¯s begin in Lamont, California, where the Chamber of Commerce, organizer of the annual Christmas parade, originally announced that this year¡¯s event would be canceled due to expenses involved in defending against a defamation lawsuit apparently stemming from events during last year¡¯s parade. (I can¡¯t quite work out the details from the news reports.) Happily, the local Lion¡¯s Club has taken over organizing duties and the parade is scheduled to proceed as usual, but with an intriguing caveat: ¡°There will be zero tolerance in terms of people intentionally creating conflict.¡± I¡¯m not sure what¡¯s going on in Lamont, but I do wish the town a Merry Christmas.
As usual, our holiday cornucopia overfloweth with litigation.
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