You can easily spend that much (or more) in printing costs for a federal appeal, since you have to print 10 copies of the entire trial transcript for the Court of Appeals, plus printing costs for the briefs. If it was an award of attorneys' fees, it would easily be ten times that.
I know where there’s a coin operated copy machine that charges ten cents a copy. As long it’s not more than 16,510 pages and I don’t have to make more than ten copies, I can do that within the budget. What do you think? Are there more than 16,510 pages?