The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion recently which advised the lower court of both its error in ignoring case law, and the appellate court’s dissatisfaction with the final season of Game of Thrones. In chastising the the lower court for disregarding a later clarification to an earlier case, the appellate opinion stated “we will not render [the clarification] meaningless the way that Game of Thrones rendered the entire Night King storyline meaningless in its final season.”
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is well known for inserting pithy, pop-culture references into its opinions, having touched on Indiana Jones andThe Twilight Zone in recent years. Perhaps most famously, Judge Alex Kozinski’s ruling in the Barbie Girl parody case opened by stating “[i]f this were a sci-fi melodrama, it might be called Speech-Zilla meets Trademark Kong” and closed by advising the parties “to chill.”