This document was rejected for filing today. It is about 15 lines too long. I didn’t think the certificate of service counted in the page length. Ooops.

So, now instead of hanging out with my granddaughter (school’s out for fall break), I am making some changes to the brief. Blech.

So it wasn’t a total waste, I’m sharing the overlength brief with you. I might need to chop off my favorite paragraph. Not that I’m ego invested, but I wanted someone to see it…

This is a case of strangling substantive law with an incredibly thin strand of procedural nit-pickery, suffocating justice and deflecting attention from the serious issues that allow the law—and those who rely on it—to breathe free.

Maybe I need to keep my creativity on this blog and off of legal docs.