"Lawyers aren't particularly known for brevity, but Vancouver, Wash., lawyer Dean Browning Webb has taken prolixity (they use words like this, too - it means "wordiness") to new extremes, according to a federal judge who ordered Webb to haul away his 465-page lawsuit and, well, tighten it a bit."

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Apparently his title was eight pages long. Now that's some dedicated verbosity!

Did the judge have to write the poem/order?

I believe there is a little known codicil in the Federal Rules of Judicial Administration that requires inclusion of a limerick in any order granting a motion for more definite statement. Unfortunately for the creative license of the judge here, however, his bench is located in Tacoma, and there isn't much that rhymes well with it (though I suppose a pithy remark about someone being in "a coma" and a passing reference to Oklahoma might work). Now, if he were in the District of Massachusetts, he would have Nantucket to work with.

"He's in a slump like Tony Roma"?

Well, then you'd have to work in a Jessica Simpson reference too.

Only if Tony and Jessica are operating a ribs and seafood restaurant. Now, if the judge works in Tacomo, WA, no. 9 might be fair game.