"This is not really a fair assessment" Yes it is. Most people making an appeal wouldn't know what a prima facie case is. It is in fact how most self-done appe

"This is not really a fair assessment" Yes it is. Most people making an appeal wouldn't know what a prima facie case is. It is in fact how most self-done appeals fail in the first place. Most people don't know when they file for themselves to file pro se - a big failing for initial cases. Little technical crap like that which relies upon a dead language that only us geeks bothered taking in high school as their elective foreign language. WE get the advantage, the common person does not. Then to boot, we pretty much eliminated civics, so most people don't know how to file a lawsuit or defend themselves, let alone know the Latin terms to utilize in the first place! And the NEW laws are still written in the OLD American English. No bueno.