Hrr, yes, "Welcome to the Working Week," a JLA one-shot, in which Shiva *suggests* to Diana that brushing the lasso against people's bodies in combat could cause them to give away their moves. The idea of Diana improving her combat skills by having rogues give her concrit in exchange for shortened prison sentences is an interesting one, I'll give it that, but everything else about that scene was pretty much total fail (Seriously, Shiva? Seriously, Croc? Seriously, CHEETAH?), and no one's ever read that special, and Patton Oswalt is kind of a "who?", so I wouldn't take that as an especially definitive statement on the properties of the lariat, particularly since it didn't even happen, it was just a theory Shiva floated (again, seriously, Shiva?).
Very nice story otherwise, though, and I admit the art there is awesome (Minerva in the gym shirt is a million kinds of wrong, but still hilariously cool).