Judge Rules Comic Book Action Figures Are "Non-Human"

You gotta love the law. The fight was over import tarriffs, which tax "dolls" (human) more heavily than "toys" (non-human). As the Wall Street Journal reports here, some comic book fans are howling in protest over the ruling denying their heroes "human" status. But the Judge ain't budging, and it appears that she did her homework: "Judge Barzilay, through a spokesman, said that she would let her 32-page decision speak for itself. [S]he described in her ruling how she subjected many of the figures to 'comprehensive examinations.' At times, that included 'the need to remove the clothes of the figure.'"