Friday, December 10, 2004
i ordinarily don't click on onion stories.
but as baude sez, this one hits close to home.
http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4049
i've been spending time lately obsessing on the supreme court,
time that could have spent cleaning the house (which i did today)
or looking for work (which i didn't) or on my internet pr0n habit
(if i had one.)
Maybe I have more reason than most. I have something like ADD,and college took me 12 years, because, since the third grade, i've had trouble getting my homework in on time.
my cert petition in majors was properly rejected by the supreme court clerk as filed a day late. something came up during the filing period that kept me out of the office for a month, and i didn't have an extra couple grand for one of those print and file your supreme court brief companies. i coulda been a contender. at some point i'm going to get back to it, and start some more cases up the pipeline. the overwhelming majority of cases that get appealed to the supreme court get rejected, but my case had a few things going for it, including a split panel, a split between the circuits,
a clearly erroneous decision, on a topic the court is very interested in right now.
i would have had a shot.
i'm a grown up. i can quit any time i want. i put it on hold for months while i thought about it. i do understand it's an expensive habit, and i'm going to need to get a job to support it. i can live with that.
but for now i'm off to check for updates at scotusblog.
if anyone out there is admitted to the supreme court bar, or the bar of any state, and might be interested in being cocounsel in one of my cases, let's talk.
gtbear at gmail dot com. without cocounsel in state x, i can't bring a case in state x, unless i do it pro se, which means no legal fees. the lack of cocounsel bottleneck
is why my project never got off the ground from a fiscal point of view. only doing cases in indiana doesn't provide enough volume to generate a revenue stream.
If i'd been working on 20 cases instead of three, the project might have been self-funding.
but as baude sez, this one hits close to home.
http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4049
i've been spending time lately obsessing on the supreme court,
time that could have spent cleaning the house (which i did today)
or looking for work (which i didn't) or on my internet pr0n habit
(if i had one.)
Maybe I have more reason than most. I have something like ADD,and college took me 12 years, because, since the third grade, i've had trouble getting my homework in on time.
my cert petition in majors was properly rejected by the supreme court clerk as filed a day late. something came up during the filing period that kept me out of the office for a month, and i didn't have an extra couple grand for one of those print and file your supreme court brief companies. i coulda been a contender. at some point i'm going to get back to it, and start some more cases up the pipeline. the overwhelming majority of cases that get appealed to the supreme court get rejected, but my case had a few things going for it, including a split panel, a split between the circuits,
a clearly erroneous decision, on a topic the court is very interested in right now.
i would have had a shot.
i'm a grown up. i can quit any time i want. i put it on hold for months while i thought about it. i do understand it's an expensive habit, and i'm going to need to get a job to support it. i can live with that.
but for now i'm off to check for updates at scotusblog.
if anyone out there is admitted to the supreme court bar, or the bar of any state, and might be interested in being cocounsel in one of my cases, let's talk.
gtbear at gmail dot com. without cocounsel in state x, i can't bring a case in state x, unless i do it pro se, which means no legal fees. the lack of cocounsel bottleneck
is why my project never got off the ground from a fiscal point of view. only doing cases in indiana doesn't provide enough volume to generate a revenue stream.
If i'd been working on 20 cases instead of three, the project might have been self-funding.
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