General Discussion

exclamation points and words like FAKE, Blanche and his minions are doing it on their own so Himself will be sufficiently pleased by their work. It's the lawyers' equivalent of wearing gifted Florsheim shoes that don't fit - accepting the humiliation of writing a memorandum that would get a law student an F in a first-year legal writing class.

It's interesting that they are asking for an indicative ruling, which is a way to ask the district court to act on a matter over which it has no jurisdiction because it's being appealed. So the court has the option of deferring consideration of the motion, denying it, or stating that it would grant the motion if the court of appeals remands for that purpose or that the motion raises a substantial issue. In other words, Blanche wants the district court to tell the Court of Appeals that it would grant their motion if it had jurisdiction, so the case should be remanded for that purpose in light of the "assassination attempt" (that occurred on a different floor of the hotel and was promptly thwarted by security without the need for 7" thick bulletproof windows).