Archive | February 28, 2024

Domestic Violence, Police Shooting and Wrongful Death Appeal. Qualified Immunity?

Thank you to opposing counsel on my appeal of the Portfolio Recovery Harassment case, Misha Tseytlin, who brought this interesting appeal to my attention.

I warn you; the briefs are long. So long, that the attorneys felt compelled to violate local rule 28A(j) to squeeze in a few extra words. (Just like former Wisconsin Solicitor General Tseytlin did on my case.) There are photos that have the descriptions on the photos. I have no clue if those were added into the word count. If my plate wasn’t overflowing, I’d cut and paste the countable words into a blank Word Doc and see.

Enjoy the read.

[CORRECTION: Feb. 28, 2024. Originally, I wrote that Misha Tseytlin was “attorney general” instead of “solicitor general”.]

FREE Docs of the Day

Words of Wisdom to A Pro Se Litigant from ChatGPT

“It’s important to approach this situation with patience, perseverance, and a commitment to seeking justice.” – chat.openai.com (FREE artificial intelligence)

I cut and pasted the sentence above into my other favorite app, http://www.dogpile.com. Usually if a sentence is used on the internet verbatim, it will pop up at the top of the dogpile. “It’s important to approach this situation with patience, perseverance, and a commitment to seeking justice” did not.

ChatGPT pulls from the vast writing collected in cyber space and usually imparts common knowledge or sentiment. (Don’t use AI to write your legal documents for you, though. As one law-librarian told me, AI has been known to “hallucinate” and invent case-law.)