Comments on: Orly’s Dark Materials

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:51:56 +0000

@Mistress Cynica: I bow down before paralegals as talented as you.

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:22:17 +0000

@Mistress Cynica: The federal district of Arizona grudgingly accepted a complaint I filed in an environmental case although I signed it with the wrong color of ink. I had to fedex them a new signature page signed in the correct color, which was black if I recall correctly.

By: Pedonator

Pedonator — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:16:06 +0000

@Capt Howdy: What a refreshing little ray of sunshine. My favorite part is this from the judge: Whether motivated by sincerely held Christian beliefs or an effort to purchase political capital with religious coin, the result is the same.

By: al2o3cr

al2o3cr — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:04:40 +0000

@Capt Howdy:

I’m interested to see if SC deals with this by making religious plates for all the other religions. Especially since if they made, say, a plate for Islam, it would seem likely to be a hate-crime magnet.

Although the “I DON’T believe” plate for the atheists would be funny…

By: Mistress Cynica

Mistress Cynica — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:01:07 +0000

@SanFranLefty: @blogenfreude: @redmanlaw: RML, my specialty as a paralegal was appellate briefs. Before we even thought about replying to an opponent's brief, I would comb it for infractions of the incredibly petty local rules. I had a "Motion to Strike Brief for Failure to Comply with Court Rules" template. I got tons of briefs stricken for violation of lines per page or size of font used in footnotes, thereby buying us more time to write our reply brief after we'd had a preview of their arguments. By the time I left the law world in 2000, 10th Circuit had gone to requiring 14 pt Garamond briefs, with prescribed total word count (determined by the "document properties" of the word processing program), with the lawyer required to sign an affidavit regarding the word count. All because the court got sick of lawyers trying to squeeze more material into briefs by shrinking fonts and other such tricks to get around page limits.

By: Capt Howdy

Capt Howdy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:53:00 +0000

Hey thumper fuckwads, believe this

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:12:59 +0000

@Pedonator: I also want tax dollars to pay for witchcraft and lesbianism.

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:11:08 +0000

@Cubbie, Pedonator: /searching for "like" button . . .

By: Pedonator

Pedonator — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:07:54 +0000

@rptrcub: I want to fund abortions. I want my tax dollars to pay for that.

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:06:42 +0000

TJ: Another GOP candidate for statewide Cali office has problems with remembering to vote. @nojo: A little italics or boldface is okay in a brief, but no more than one or two words. All-Caps verboten except in captions. Line numbering - it's a bitch to line it up, my theory is that if the text is spaced the same amount as the numbers it's okay. Also, MS Word is all I've ever used, because at least in federal court it's all e-filing of PDFs. If you have a proposed order for the judge to sign, it's submitted separately as a Word document. @Dodgerblue: N.D.Cal. and E.D.Cal. will still take filings even if they don't have the numbers down the side. And there are a couple of federal district courts on the East Coast that I've done stuff in, that require in local or judge rules that all briefs be 14 point Times New Roman font.