’Tis the holiday season, meaning joy and happiness and disagreement and litigation. In other words, it’s time for this year’s dispatches from the Christmas wars.

Let’s begin in Lamont, California, where the Chamber of Commerce, organizer of the annual Christmas parade, originally announced that this year’s event would be canceled due to expenses involved in defending against a defamation lawsuit apparently stemming from events during last year’s parade. (I can’t quite work out the details from the news reports.) Happily, the local Lion’s Club has taken over organizing duties and the parade is scheduled to proceed as usual, but with an intriguing caveat: "There will be zero tolerance in terms of people intentionally creating conflict.” I’m not sure what’s going on in Lamont, but I do wish the town a Merry Christmas.

As usual, our holiday cornucopia overfloweth with litigation.