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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
The hard way to win a Supreme Court case is Emergency Relief under the Court's rules. Those cases are NEVER argued. You file your papers, and you win or lose on those. My first win in the Court was McCarthy v. Briscoe, September, 1976, granting Emergency Relief.

You can either find the case. Or you can look up 26 of my cases in the American Bar Association Journal, July, 1977. page 1108, et seq. That was, of course, a brief on the merits, not an amicus brief.

As for amicus briefs, there may be only one case in the history of the Court where such a brief was the only one filed by anyone in the case that got the answer right. Look up Bush v. Gore, December, 2000, and compare my brief with the Court's unanimous decision in Round I.

Or try Anderson v. Celebrezze, 1983. How many times does the majority in a Supreme Court case cite with approval in its opinion one particular amicus brief as dispositive? That's damned rare. Try footnote 14 in that case, and then find out who wrote that brief.

If you are a lawyer, you are incompetent. If you are a layman, you are merely ignorant, rude, and not especially good at doing research on the Internet.

Don't bother to apologize.

Happy New Year.

John / Billybob

618 posted on 01/01/2009 9:24:19 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Latest book: www.AmericasOwnersManual.com)
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To: Congressman Billybob
If you are a lawyer, you are incompetent. If you are a layman, you are merely ignorant, rude, and not especially good at doing research on the Internet.

Funny, that's what real lawyers who have no need to inflate their resumes have been saying about you.

Don't bother to apologize.

Don't wait in anticipation for it.

624 posted on 01/02/2009 6:38:45 AM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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