Oh, yeah, and I filed one too. I did mine for free, by the way, and I took great care to point out to the court how ABC was intentionally misleading it. That's something it probably didn't mention to Paul Clement when it asked him to be their lawyer.
Also this week the state of Arizona issued it's report about bail, fines, fees, and costs. The Chief Justice is running that show, and everyone is on board. Of course, PBUS says, "don't believe this bunk." Really? Did you see who signed off on that report?
Well, you better believe it. I can't even keep up anymore. The insurance companies only tell you about the two things that they do (including interviews on 10 watt talk radio stations), and they leave out the 50 things everyone else is doing, like big time state reports led by a Chief Justice.
When you're in as deep as me, you occasionally have time to talk to others about sort of tangential things. Like the other day. I was with a friend of mine who's also neck deep in bail, and we both started talking about what we would do if we "switched sides." You know, if we decided to cash the big check and go work for the insurance companies. It turns out we actually know at lot that would help the industry stay afloat. The weird thing is that the insurance companies have never even tried any of our ideas.
One particular idea, though, really got my attention. It was what I would call a "pure genius" move, and simply by doing it, it would keep commercial bail flowing in America for another 20 years. I hadn't really thought about it before, and the bail insurance companies certainly haven't thought about it. Their strategy is to fight everything. Call everything bunk, like that'll make it go away.
Tell you what. I'm not going to say what the genius move is, but I'll write about it if I ever see it. Here's a hint. If you were at the 2011 Conference on Pretrial Justice, someone mentioned it in passing. Does that help?
Overall, I'd say this has been a pretty big week.
