01.05.2014 - 13:28 [ Techdirt ]

Brilliant Reporting: NYT Recreates Wacky Deposition Over Definition Of A Photocopier

The NY Times is launching a new service, which is quite awesome: taking interesting legal transcripts, and then filming them with actors. The first one is brilliant and a must-watch. The NYT got folks from the Upright Citizens Brigade to recreate the hilarious deposition fight concerning whether or not the Cuyahoga County Recorders‘ Office (in Ohio) had a photocopying machine, where the Office‘s IT guy (and his lawyer) worked very, very, very hard to not answer the question by constantly asking what is meant by a photocopying machine, leading to reasonable exasperation from the lawyer for the plaintiffs in the case.