Terrifying tales abound from any courthouse docket. In the mid-1990s, the Southern District of New York handled a trademark case involving a real horror show. The distribution company for the Wes Craven-directed smash "Scream" sued the company behind "I Know What You Did Last Summer"—a teen-horror hit in its own right—over alleged references to Craven in its marketing campaign. U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum issued a 1998 ruling in the case that seems to encapsulate the mood behind one of the film's best-known lines: "What are you waiting for, huh?!" "It is in everybody's interest that this proceeding come to an end," Cedarbaum wrote in a ruling granting Miramax Films' motion to enjoin Columbia Pictures from using the contested phrasing in its marketing. "Removing 'From the Creator of Scream,' which as far as I can tell doesn't really cause you much difficulty, from every place that you have caused it to be used would resolve this entire proceeding." This Halloween, a ghoul from another Craven-directed franchise lurks in the Southern District—Freddy Kruger from Craven's "Nightmare on Elm Street," part of the now-haunted office of District Executive Ed Friedland that also incudes terrifying figures from "It," "Halloween," "Friday the 13th," "Mars Attacks!," "Haunted Mansion" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." "It was a perfect representation of my courtroom," U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff told the Law Journal after having emerged from Friedland's office of horrors. "Just another day at the Southern District." Rakoff is part of a panel of six Southern District judges who will pick a winning exhibit from Friedland's office—to be announced after Halloween has passed.