The New Yorker Radio Hour · 2026-09-01 · 16 min · 2,461 words

Ian Frazier and Samy Burch on “Coyote vs. Acme”

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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick, and in nineteen ninety Years before I was editing this magazine, staff writer Ian Fraser Published a brilliant piece. About a legal case.

Case number B nineteen two nine four. Judge Joan Kajava. Presiding. While E Coyote. Plaintiff.

It was the opening statement of a lawyer representing Wiley Coyote. The clever, but very unlucky coyote. Of the old Warner Brothers cartoons. Mr. Coyote states that on eighty five separate occasions he has purchased of the ACME company.

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