{"id":6255,"date":"2012-05-28T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T09:22:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6255","title":{"rendered":"A \u201ctaser\u201d is an improper use of \u201cTaser\u201d; to \u201cTase\u201d probably is now a word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taser is a proper noun. www.Taser.com. To \u201ctase\u201d or to use a \u201ctaser\u201d requires that Taser be capitalized. I\u2019ll give that Tase is now a word, as in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Florida_Taser_incident\">\u201cdon&#8217;t Tase me, bro.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three uses of little-T taser as a noun in the last nine days:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter removing the other occupants from the home, the officers used a taser in an attempt to subdue Sandberg, which proved tragically ineffective.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2011\/11\/01\/10-55608.pdf\">Sandberg v. City of Torrance<\/a>, 456 Fed. Appx. 711 (9th Cir. 2011) (unpublished) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvans was tased and removed from the car.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtinfo.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/B227697.PDF\">People v. Evans<\/a>, 200 Cal. App. 4th 735, 133 Cal. Rptr. 3d 323 (2d Dist. 2011)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeputy Chavarria also testified he removed and displayed his taser gun while entering the apartment \u2018because at that point, I wanted compliance.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4thcoa.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/PDFopinion.asp?OpinionID=24408\">Turrubiate v. State<\/a>, 2011 Tex. App. LEXIS 8895 (Tex. App. \u2014 San Antonio November 9, 2011) <\/p>\n<p>No case this month has used Taser properly. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like \u201cKleenex\u201d; a proper noun. I heard in law school that \u201caspirin\u201d was once, and \u201cXerox\u201d fought to protect its trademarked name. Taser may not care, and would it prefer become generic so everybody will buy theirs?<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, in the local legal newspaper, our version of \u201cbig law\u201d does a weekly article on an Eighth Circuit case which is probably longer than the original opinion. They mentioned \u201ctaser\u201d but their spell checker made it \u201ctaster,\u201d probably because \u201ctaser\u201d isn\u2019t in \u201cbig law\u2019s\u201d vocabulary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}