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Unrelated question, but who is paying for all these lawyers? Timbs himself out of his pocket?
by TremendousJudge 8y ago
Unrelated question, but who is paying for all these lawyers? Timbs himself out of his pocket?
- BurningFrog 8y agoInstitute for Justice: https://ij.org/about-us/ https://ij.org/about-us/ You can help out too: https://ij.org/support/give-now https://ij.org/support/give-now
- raincom 8y agopro bono. I think IJR is involved in this: https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/ https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/
- da_chicken 8y agoWikipedia says he was represented by the Institute for Justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana Otherwise, yes, Timbs would have to pay. You can file a petition to ask the court to waive your court costs (there's a Latin legal term for it that I believe means "with pockets turned out" or "with pockets empty" but I can't remember it), but your lawyer's time isn't covered by that.
- umanwizard 8y agoI think in forma pauperis is the phrase you're looking for (but its literal meaning isn't what you suggest).
- da_chicken 8y agoThat is it, yes.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoFor reference, in forma pauperis means "in the shape of a poor man"; pockets aren't mentioned. As far as I'm aware, the Romans didn't have pockets and so there would be no way to express the concept in Latin.
- umanwizard 8y agoLatin was the international language of Europe for almost a thousand years after the collapse of the Roman Empire, during which time many scientific advancements were made. There are plenty of Latin words for things that didn't exist in Antiquity.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoThere are tiny communities who use recreational Latin today. Here's the Vicipaedia article on the telephonum: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephonum https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephonum But that doesn't really constitute a good argument that there is a Latin word for telephones.
- marktangotango 8y agoThank you, beautiful refutation of an argumentative quarralous, I would even say bad faith, assertion, which we see entirely to often now imo.
- Pharmakon 8y agoI had no idea this existed, and you just made my day with it.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoGiven that telephone is Ancient Greek (though obviously coined more recently), I don't see why there shouldn't be a Latin word for it.
- dclowd9901 8y ago> As far as I'm aware, the Romans didn't have pockets and so there would be no way to express the concept in Latin. I know this is probably not meant to be funny, but for whatever reason, in reading it, I couldn't help but laugh.
- jessriedel 8y agoMore generally, I believe that by the time a cases nears the level of the Supreme Court, legal fees typically become less of an issue in practice. There are many orgs on bath sidee that fund cases with important precedent, and plenty of great lawyers willing to argue for free since it's so prestigious.
- TheGRS 8y agoOthers have more specific answers, but more broadly if you have a case that's Supreme Court worthy there are numerous organizations willing to step in to represent your side. The ACLU is sort of built on this principle.