[Lnc-business] Request for Amicus Brief

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Please send me the outline.  Of course I will keep confidential.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:43 AM James Lark via Lnc-business
<lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>
> 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
> -----
>
> 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
> >
>


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