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Alex Burrows of the Vancouver Canucks may have gotten away with it unscathed when he chomped down on the gloved hand of the Boston Bruins' Patrice Bergeron in the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals, but a recent Court of Special Appeals decision makes clear that similar rule-flouting conduct will not be tolerated -- at least not when it comes to filing briefs in the Maryland appellate courts. Whether biting our adversaries is a good or bad thing is a subject for another day, but before proceeding any further, I should point out that I am not a hockey fan, nor did I even know until very recently who Alex Burrows or Patrice Bergeron are, much less that their teams were battling each other for the Stanley Cup trophy.
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In most venues, the "f-word" is code for a word which typically provokes a range of human reaction. But in my family there are two kinds of f-words, and one of them -- Frisbee -- always gets the same response from the newest member of the household. And like the two pups who lived with us prior to his arrival, our now-two-year-old dog, Smokey, has taught me a valuable lesson about appellate advocacy. Before moving to Baltimore, Smokey lived with the rest of his litter in a foster home in Richmond, Va., where my wife and daughter drove to adopt him because, after all, everyone knows there are no rescue dogs in the Baltimore metropolitan area. But I digress.
