Mosaics' Blog

I might have mentioned somewhere in my blog that my husband and I have been fighting the IRS for about 8-10 years. The tax courts have ruled against us every step of the way, so we have to appeal to the Supreme Court. My husband has been doing a lot of the motion and brief writing himself to save money on attorney fees. Seriously, he's learned enough to become an attorney by now.

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Anyway, he wrote the brief, actually it's called a Petition for Writ of Certiorari, and it's for my case. He finished it this week and e-mailed it to the printer. The Supreme Court has all kinds of guidelines and rules that you have to follow when you submit an appeal to them - font size, page number, binding, format, etc. They are very specific, so there are printing companies that specialize in the printing and filing of the documents. We received our copy a couple of days ago and my husband called the printer to ask him a question. The printer told him that he was discounting our job by $300.00 because it was so perfect that he didn't have to do anything to it except print, bind, and send. He said that usually he has to spend hours reformatting and tweaking any document sent to him and that my husband is the first attorney ever to send a print-ready document. My husband didn't tell him that he wasn't an attorney.

We have no expectation that the Supreme Court will hear my case, but this is something that we have to do to complete the administrative process. If they don't hear our case, we have to start all over with the judicial process and have a trial by jury. If they do hear our case, well...we hope they find in our favor.