Judge
Jed
Rakoff
(Photo
by
The
Washington
Post
/
Getty
Images)
Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature,
Quote
of
the
Day.
Since
Ed
has
to
deal
with
more
than
40
judges,
he
knows
what
monsters
are
really
like.
—
Judge
Jed
Rakoff
of
the
Southern
District
of
New
York,
in
comments
given
to
the
Wall
Street
Journal,
concerning
the
“haunted”
office
of
District
Executive
Ed
Friedland,
which
is
now
showcasing
employee-made
exhibits
featuring
characters
from
scary
movies,
including
Frankenstein;
Ghostface
from
“Scream”;
Chucky
from
“Child’s
Play”;
Beetlejuice;
and
Art
the
Clown
from
“Terrifier.”
Rakoff,
who
turned
the
handle
on
a
gumball
machine
in
the
“Scream”
display,
received
a
spooky
prize:
a
sticker
of
himself
being
unmasked
as
Ghostface.
“I
don’t
know
if
I’ll
ever
be
as
traumatized
as
I
was
then,”
he
said.
A
panel
of
SDNY
judges
and
Second
Circuit
appellate
judges
will
choose
a
winning
exhibit
after
Halloween
is
over.
Click
here
to
see
some
of
the
incredibly
spooky
displays,
courtesy
of
the
New
York
Law
Journal.
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editor
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Above
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Law,
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worked
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2011.
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