Actually, pardon me while i slap ourselves in the back, but despite that we were Amicus on this case and not lead counsel, we earned the donations on this one. We write these briefs to fulfill strategic goals with the court and we have had a significant amount of impact on some cases. Based on the questions asked in this one, I believe this may have been one of the most influential and impactful briefs we have written.
We need peoples donations to be able to sustain this. I am working on an Amicus for next month's session and it has taken a good 40 hours of work to layout, research, etc and I will be working through the weekend to get it further along. I am researching laws from the mid 1850s and reading and researching cases from back then too. Then an attorney will take it the rest of the way which costs money, as well as printing and court costs. I do this for prep work for free so we can help sustain the balance sheet for when we need lawyers to do lawyerly stuff for real, etc. Despite this, these briefs still cost $5K+ to file despite the amount of work we do on them. Although Karen was the primary author on this one, she lifted stuff she did from an earlier case to help defray costs. And a NES member and law school student at the time was also instrumental in helping write the brief that served as the seed to this one and he worked for free to get the experience. It's truly a team effort on these things. But relying on free crap is not sustainable (unless you have an EBT card apparently...) and we need donations to keep going.
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