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ATL’s Legally Themed Halloween Costume Contest: The Winner (2017)

Who was the lucky 'winner' of this year’s competition?

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You came, you saw, you voted, and one person quite literally stole the show in this year’s legally themed Halloween costume contest. Making law-related Halloween costumes is no easy feat, and many of this year’s submissions were quite creative. Perhaps even more creative was the method of voting that was used by one of our competitors and his friends.

This year’s “winner” ran away with 38 percent of the vote, and we’re referring to this year’s “winner” with quotes because of the rampant cheating that was going on.

So, who “won” our annual costume contest? It was this dapper fellow from Northwestern who ran away with the vote. In fairness, his costume is awesome:

Normally, we wouldn’t have questioned his win, but we received several tips from The Bluebook’s own classmates (ouch) letting us know about the questionable voting methods (read: cheating methods) that were encouraged by this year’s contest “winner.” Prior to these methods being used, International Shoe was set to take home the prize. Check out the evidence below (we’ve edited out The Bluebook’s name):

Here’s what The Bluebook said when contacted about his advocacy for cheating: “As to the allegations you mentioned, I can assure you that we won the contest ‘by the book.'” Dude got caught and he doesn’t even care. What chutzpah! Nevertheless, you’re doing a major disservice to the book you’re dressed as, my friend.

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When we spoke to International Shoe, the rightful winner of this year’s costume contest, she had a very good sense of humor about being bested by a cheating Bluebook, commenting, “Not sure how you cite Russian election interference?”

We’re sending out t-shirts to The Bluebook and International Shoe, but next year, we’ll likely be instituting stricter voting methods, as we’ve been forced to do with our annual law revue competition thanks to cheating like this.

Thanks to everyone for submitting costumes and for voting (sometimes on numerous occasions). We sincerely hope you’ll submit a costume again for next year’s competition. Our readers are part of what makes Above the Law such a great website.

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Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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