Law: Cure All

Last week in Pennsylvania's Legislature, Representative Thomas Weidemann of Delaware County introduced a bill with the shortest title ("To Cure Lawyers' Mistakes") of any of the 1,201 measures filed in the Harrisburg House this session: "All mistakes by lawyers are hereby erased, but every one else shall be required to abide by the letter and spirit of the laws. This statute shall work prospectively and retroactively forever."

Mourned Representative Weidemann: "Lawyers can't bury their mistakes like doctors."

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