A benchslap is when a judge humiliates an attorney, insults another judge, or reverses a lower court in a particularly demeaning manner. A judicial bitch
slap, if you will. This term was popularized by David
Lat of AboveTheLaw.com (when he was
blogging for UnderneathTheirRobes.com).
That was a classic Kozinski benchslap.
Judge
Judy totally benchslapped that hooker that claimed to be a model, did you see that?
She might be a litigatrix, but that didn'
t help her
dodge that brutal benchslap.