For those amused by legal judgments, here is a link to an appellate decision from several years ago touching on the issue of carry-on bags, and how they are to be measured:

http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/277/277.F3d.499.01-1435.html

You can be almost SURE, however, that the original pleadings that the attorneys involved took to court would NOT have fit that template!