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I wanted to share this because it’s a funny phrase, and I think it’s important to keep an eye out for humor, intentional or otherwise, in civil litigation filings.

Film studio Paramount Pictures, in its motion to dismiss a defamation suit by a plaintiff alleging the film The Wolf of Wall Street, via the book on which it’s apparently based, defamed him:

The Book did not have only one dishonest executive with a notable toupee.

That’s a sentence that only lives its best, strangest life outside its original context. But, if you’re okay with dispelling some of the magic, read the rest of the motion at Scribd, or embedded below.