This is the first installment!  Thanks everyone for sending in things you’ve actually heard people say around the law building.  Keep them coming!  If you have another, send them to me: steven-wieland@uiowa.edu.

(Fleming Ford)

Fleming: Well, it’s awesome!
Hovenkamp: The standard is not awesomeness, Ms. Ford.

(Me)

Does the length of the contact matter?
- Jerome, on the question of whether having sex in a state is a “minimum contact” to create personal jurisdiction over that person. In Family Law.

(Gwen Olney)

In a rape case, a woman initially declined having sex with a man because she was “on the rag.”

Inquisitive student:  “How can we be sure that the woman was on her period?” (Implying that she lied out of fear.)
Prof. Baldus:  “Well, that’s what “on the rag” means…she was having her period.”