I continue to maintain their lawyers have an insufficient amount of autism for this case. Ty treated the Lemon Fuhrer like a rational fellow lawyer, and tried to do a straightforward hearing in front of Chupp. Hsu and Martinez tightened up the filings, but each argument only had a single example, when they should have buried the court with examples of the defendant's impropriety (in an appendix if needed to keep the main text Chupp-simple).
I'll place my bets on Hsu and Martinez knowing what needs to go in there, but they're too slow in properly formatting, documenting, and linking case citations for every single aspect, especially with the word limit. The record is a disaster, as
@AnOminous frequently points out; they probably need extra effort not just pointing at things in the record, but also arguing they are properly established to begin with. I think we'll wind up seeing a decent filing, with limited examples (again), and probably not the examples some of us think are the most egregious.
Asking for an extension was free, Vic's under no pressure to end the suit immediately, so I don't see a problem. I've never heard of a case where a lawyer turned down an available deadline extension. Unless there's some worry about the statute of limitations for something outside the immediate case, this seems like just a repeat of the freakout over the COA clerk's filing fee notice.
