Short Briefs

Yesterday I got one of the brief's the Court told the FatFucker to file in response to some of the issues I raised at a the status conference recently.

Life can be good sometimes.

It was possibly the shortest brief I'd ever written. The style of the case takes up a page by itself and it was still possibly the shortest brief I've ever written.

I didn't do a word count but it was three or four sentences long and I made each sentence its own paragraph.

I started out saying "The United States Supreme Court said..." and quoted the holding from a U.S. Supreme Court case that was EXACTLY on point.

I said this is exactly the case here before the court today because X and Y.

I get what I want.

Ta da! imagine me doing a little shuffle here and putting my hand out to indicate that dance is over.

This judge always has his eye on what the appellate court is going to do; he doesn't like to be reversed on appeal. I think he'll do what I want. The woman lawyer from the FatFucker's office wrote a truly rambling piece of junk that went on for four or five pages about why my client wasn't entitled to what I wanted.

I received it in the mail in the morning and had my reply filed by 4:00 that afternoon. I'm hoping the Court will rule quickly.

I think ultimately we will lose this case but man it's been fun getting there.