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World's Most Fortunate Pro Se Litigant Represented By Judge Posner Now Also Represented By David Boies

As the case moves to the Supreme Court, William Bond adds even more firepower.

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This story needs one of those “Individual Results May Vary” disclaimers. Because when you launch a pro se case against the government, your case probably won’t resemble William Bond’s. Bond managed to get Judge Richard Posner to volunteer to assist him, and subsequently represent him after the Fourth Circuit stupidly demanded that Posner and co-counsel Matthew Dowd, not Bond, sign their names to the brief eviscerating the federal judiciary for its terminally flawed pro se process.

Now that the Fourth Circuit kicked the case in a remarkably lazy opinion, Bond is looking to take the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it looks like he’s got David Boies on his side now.

Some pro se litigants get all the breaks!

In a motion filed Friday afternoon, Bond seeks an extension to file his cert petition. But in a surprising twist, the motion is signed by David Boies, with Boies Schiller’s Joanna Wright and Emily Harris also listed on the papers. Judge Posner and Dowd are still featured as part of the team, but it appears as though Boies is taking the lead as counsel of record at this stage based on his experience with Supreme Court advocacy.

Getting a cert petition picked up is a little bit of alchemy, but a motion featuring both Boies and Judge Posner on the cover should raise more than a few eyebrows in the cert pool.

Stay tuned, because I hear the test tube clone of Clarence Darrow wants in on this matter next.

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Earlier: Judge Posner Loses Appeal In Laughably Lazy Fourth Circuit Opinion
Judge Posner Chastises District Court’s ‘Laziness’… And He’s Got A Point
Judge Posner Files First Brief Since Leaving The Bench, Lights Into Federal Judiciary
Judge Posner Taking On Pro Se Case After Fourth Circuit Did Something Incredibly Stupid

HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.

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