Thursday, September 23, 2004

Appellate Antics

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While I usually restrict my posts to Texas and national issues, here is a fascinating opinion on the delicate art of getting one's appeal heard on the merits. This hits very close to home for me as I am currently facing a loss on the appellate level due to an action by the trial court that was unforseeable and may well be jurisdictional.

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Faith, here’s an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God’s sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in, equivocator. -Shakespeare, Macbeth: 3.2.9-12