[Lnc-business] Request for Amicus Brief

[James Lark]

Dear Mr. Hall:

     I hope all is well with you.  Thank you for your messages regarding 
this matter.  Please send me the outline; I shall treat it as confidential.

     Best wishes to you in all your endeavors.  Thanks for your work on 
behalf of the LP.

     Take care,
     Jim

     James W. Lark, III
     Professor, Dept. of Engineering Systems and Environment
     Professor, Applied Mathematics Program, Dept. of Engineering and 
Society
     Affiliated Faculty, Dept. of Statistics
     University of Virginia

     Advisor, The Liberty Coalition
     University of Virginia

     Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee
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On 10/29/2018 12:30 PM, Oliver Hall via Lnc-business wrote:
>     Greetings,
>
>     I have been in touch with the attorney who is filing an amicus brief on
>     behalf of several amici. As of now, the amici signing on to the brief
>     include the following:
>     The Libertarian Party of California
>     The National Constitution Party
>     The Republican Party of Idaho
>     The Utah Republican Native American Caucus
>     It is likely that other parties may agree to sign on as well.
>     Also, the attorney sent me an outline of the brief he intends to file.
>     If you would like to review that outline, on a confidential basis,
>     please contact me directly via email and I'll send it to you. Please
>     keep that outline confidential.
>     Thank you,
>     Oliver
> Oliver B. Hall
> Special Counsel
> Libertarian National Committee
> 617-953-0161
>
>     On 10/28/2018 12:43 PM, Joe Bishop-Henchman wrote:
>
>     Someone asked the LNC's lawyers to chime in, and as one I'll just
>     reinforce what others have said.
>     The Supreme Court agrees to hear fewer than 1% of the cases appealed to
>     it, and one common feature of those cases it does hear is lots of
>     amicus briefs. It's not causal but it is correlative, so if we think
>     the issue is important (and we do) we want the Court to get lots of
>     separate amicus briefs.
>     If the Court agrees to hear the case, we then would have the choice
>     (and expense) to file a separate merits brief.
>     The printing costs is standard (the Supreme Court has some archaic
>     demands on this, including non-standard paper sizes), and the estimate
>     for lawyer costs is a steal. (I've had to pay anywhere between free and
>     $90,000 for this, with an average of about $20,000.) That's my main
>     question - Oliver, do we have a lawyer ready to write it? If so, I'd
>     want us to do our own brief. If not, pairing with someone else's makes
>     sense. The national party perspective and the state party perspective
>     are both valuable for the Court to hear and need not be combined if we
>     can avoid it.
>     Agree with those who want to leave to Chair and or the Exec Committee
>     to decide, due to the short time frame.
>     Finally, Oliver just so you know, I'm a member of the Supreme Court Bar
>     (and NY, MD, and DC). While I don't have the bandwidth to write briefs,
>     I am able to be counsel of record on them should we ever need it.
>     JBH
>