Amanda's legal team filed their memorandum of law today.   I am glad that I will never have to respond to a brief which ends with the words, "This case cries out for justice for a grieving mother.  If ever there was a time for the Court to fashion such an appropriate and creative remedy, this case is that time."

There is an old legal trick to deal with an opponent who is acting like a scoundrel.   You flip him a quarter and tell him to, "Call your mother and ask her if she is proud of what you are doing."    It won't do any good to flip me a quarter, my mother has been in Heaven since September, 1988.    But I know she is smiling down on her favorite son today.

This is a good brief.   Hell it's a damn good brief.   It might even be a God damn good brief.   Thanks to all who had a hand in it:  Jim Ostrowski, Mike Kuzma, Daire Irwin, and other good people whose names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Law professor and author Zephyr Teachout was in Buffalo the other night (9/17/15) as the guest of the League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara (http://www.lwvbn.org/).    Her Topic was Money in Politics and she signed her book, Corruption in America.

Here at the Field of Dreams, we have been very busy saving the world and we apologize for the delay in posting the video.   The sound fades a bit as Teachout wanders about the stage, so turn up your volume.   Don't blame the audio on me; she was wearing a mobile fanny pack, but WNED needs a better way for big time media photogs like me to hook into their house audio system.   The video is pretty complete and is presented in three segments below.
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While I disagree with Teachout on the problem posed by the free speech rationing concepts presented by the US Supreme Court decision in Buckley v Valeo (1976)  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo), I'm still happy that we supported her against Emperor Andrew Cuomo in  2014.