{"id":92,"date":"2006-09-06T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/09\/06\/how-appealing-is-pro-se-litigation\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T23:00:40","slug":"how-appealing-is-pro-se-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/09\/06\/how-appealing-is-pro-se-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"how appealing is pro se litigation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[we&#8217;re still in <em>pre-launch<\/em> status, as we <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/09\/01\/wanted-co-editors-for-self-help-law-weblog\/\">search for a <em>shlep<\/em> team<\/a>]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to appellate courts, the stereotypical self-represented litigant has always been a prisoner, toiling away in the penitentiary library, with the assistance of the\u00a0on-site jailhouse lawyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"68\" alt=\"jailBirdN\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/09\/JailBird%20neg.jpg\" width=\"59\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That image may soon be changing, as more and more of the un-incarcerated join the ranks of <em>pro se<\/em> appellant litigants, <em>and<\/em> more and more states (in self-defense and in service to the public) offer guidance for appellants and appellees without lawyers.\u00a0For example, see the recent e-brochure posted by the Nebraska courts: <a href=\"http:\/\/court.nol.org\/public\/self_help\/citzguide.pdf\"><em>A Citizen&#8217;s Guide to Nebraska&#8217;s Appellate Courts<\/em><\/a> (March 2006, 10 pp pdf) (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfhelpsupport.org\">SelfHelpSupport<\/a>.org).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several other states have produced extensive materials to help the self-represented navigate the appellate process.\u00a0 Here are a few examples, compiled from the Library of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfhelpsupport.org\">SelfHelpSupport<\/a> (please let us know of similar guides for this\u00a0 list):\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>California: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtinfo.ca.gov\/courts\/courtsofappeal\/4thDistrictDiv1\/4dca_stepbystep.htm\"><em>The California Court of Appeal Step-by-Step<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Delaware: <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/How%20To\/Appeals\/\">How To &#8211; Appeals<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Indiana: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/cofc\/pro-se-guide\/!SSL!\/WebHelp\/pro_se_guide_to_appellate_procedure.htm\">Indiana\u00a0<em>Pro Se<\/em> Guide to Appellate Procedure<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Michigan: <a href=\"http:\/\/courtofappeals.mijud.net\/pdf\/at-handbook.pdf\"><em>MI Court of Appeals &#8211; Guide for Appellants without Attorneys<\/em><\/a> (176 pp. pdf)<\/div>\n<div>New Jersey: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judiciary.state.nj.us\/appdiv\/forms\/prosein.htm\">Appellate Process Pro Se Kit<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Wisconsin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/ca\/citizensguide.pdf\">Filing an Appeal: A Citizen&#8217;s Guide<\/a>\u00a0(rev&#8217;d Jan. 2006, 38 pp. pdf)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fearnotlaw.com\/articles\/article3705.html\"><em>Edwards v. Emperor\u2019s Garden Rest<\/em><\/a>, 122 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 28 \u00a0(March 30, 2006), discussed in the Las Vegas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/lvrj_home\/2005\/Dec-30-Fri-2005\/news\/5129865.html\"><em>Review Journal<\/em><\/a>, for a recent example of a successful <em>pro se<\/em> appellant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" alt=\"quoteMarksLSN\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/09\/quoteMarksLSN.jpg\" width=\"20\" \/>\u00a0 We wonder whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hjbashman.com\/\">Howard Bashman<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/howappealing.law.com\/\"><em>How Appealing<\/em><\/a> has been feeling the pinch yet, with all this self-help guidance available to the public.\u00a0 More important, we wonder what Howard thinks of the quality of the guidance available for those who need or want to go pro se in an appellant matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[we&#8217;re still in pre-launch status, as we search for a shlep team]\u00a0 When it comes to appellate courts, the stereotypical self-represented litigant has always been a prisoner, toiling away in the penitentiary library, with the assistance of the\u00a0on-site jailhouse lawyer.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That image may soon be changing, as more and more of the un-incarcerated join the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}