The judge said setting this precedent would clog the court system with charges for every player who threw an elbow under a basket or anyone who ever threw a punch on an ice rink.
The outcome favoring the owner was similar to thousands of other cases known as "holdover proceedings" that clog the city's housing court every year, involving landlords and tenants, with far less net worth.
In early December America signed an agreement with Canada allowing customs officials to inspect factory shipments on site, rather than clog up the borders.
Chances are, those scenes wound up on the cutting-room floor as Clooney struggled to bring his movie under two hours (with six minutes to spare) and still make sense of the laborious machinations that clog up the third act.