"How much justice can you afford?" New Yorker cartoon

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> Maybe Fred Shapiro has tracked this "How much justice can you afford?" =20
> phrase further.

Further, meaning pre-Handelsman?  Marc Galanter, _Lowering the Bar: Lawyer
Jokes and Legal Culture_, says: "It is not clear whether Handelsman's
cartoon was inspired by an older and unrecorded joke, or whether such a
joke was derived from the cartoon and then recollected, or whether the
joke was bred by mis-recollection of the cartoon."

Fred Shapiro


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