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June 21, 2010. See exceptions that prove the rule.
Also, note that Tort Bunny technically gets it wrong in the fourth panel. Brown Rabbit's statement doesn't prove anything -- it's just an example of him doing things that piss Tort Bunny off.
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Brown Rabbit: And so a motion to dismiss is proper
only if the plaintiff can prove no set
of facts to support her claim.
Tort Bunny: What about Iqbal v. Ashcroft?
End of panel.
Brown Rabbit: Well, that's the exception
that proves the rule.
Tort Bunny: Not it isn't.
Brown Rabbit: Come again?
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: No, it is not the exception that proves
the rule. It's just an exception.
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: The only thing it proves is that you're
trying to refute something you can't
explain with a misused idiom instead
of logical reasoning.
Brown Rabbit: Perhaps ...
End of panel.
Brown Rabbit: But irregardless, for all intensive
purposes, that just begs the
question of why you're literally
hoeing this formalistic line.
Tort Bunny sputters.
Tort Bunny: No it doesn't--
You can't--
That's not--
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: Stop it!
Brown Rabbit: Exactly!
Tort Bunny: Don't make me get stabby.
Brown Rabbit: I know. That's what I was just saying.
End of comic.
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