Court Asked to Exclude Busty Woman from Trial

A Chicago lawyer has filed a novel motion in a small claims action involving a car dealership and a married couple.  Thomas Gooch, who represents the dealership, filed a motion to exclude "a large-breasted woman" from sitting at the plaintiff's counsel table with the plaintiffs and their attorney, Dmitri Feofanov.  According to CBS News, Gooch claims that the sole purpose of having this woman, who Feofanov identified as a paralegal, at counsel table is to distract the jury from the merits of the case.  Although the motion described the woman as "large-breasted," Gooch reportedly told a local newspaper that he doesn't object to the fact that she's buxom ("Personally, I like big breasts" Gooch is quoted to have said) but he objects because she isn't a lawyer and has no business at counsel table "dressed in such a fashion as to call attention to herself."

This raises all sorts of interesting possibilities.  Perhaps jurors who are deemed too attractive will be asked to be excused because their appearance may detract the other jurors from considering the case.