I agree, even when calling to get some
public records, unless you are an attorney, they really dont take care
of you that well or quickly ---
I also think that if you dont have an attorney, you dont know
that you have an option to fight against them --- I only knew because Greg told
me that I could from the very beginning.. so when my permit was denied at the
first time, I think that most of the people would have thought that they dont
have any other options but to surrender their animals which is
sooo wrong! Also, I think that in Albuquerque, there was
no one in the past who was trying to fight against the possibility of the
ordinance being unconstitutional before me according to Merry they all
gave in because they did not better even a few of my friends who are in
rescue organization (and these are board and president of well known rescue
groups) told me not to fight against it, but find a way to go around it because
I wont win
But, I was never going to give in --- no
matter what, though --- thats a sort of my weakness as well as strength
when I feel I am right, I cant compromise it I need to fight
until I get what I want and sometimes, its not the best way.. being
right is not necessary the most important thing, but doing right
might be more important sometimes I think the city attorney was shocked
that I prepared so much information at the hearing, as no one in the past had
prepared that much information to fight and he simply got pissed at the end
because I did not give in ---
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Nina
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006
1:43 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: Great news about my
court case - get yourself a lawyer
It's so true about people who have attorneys being
treated differently. This is not a very significant example, but it
opened my eyes to this very fact and changed the way I pursue disputes.
On one of the many relocations of my youth, I actually had a job waiting for me
in NY city. The company I would be working for paid for my moving
expenses and I hired Mayflower to haul my stuff from CA to NJ. I had
neatly marked all my boxes and when the drivers arrived they wouldn't wait for
me to inspect all the boxes. I signed off, but I included a note saying
that I had not inspected everything. Sure enough several of the boxes
marked tools were missing. (Another lesson is to mark your
boxes in code!). My significant other and I fought for months with the moving
company, through phone calls and letters, each time they would put us
off. (We were insured for loss and damage btw). Finally we spoke to
an attorney about it. While we were in the attorney's office, after a 10
minute conversation mind you, he picked up the phone and that quick we were
okayed a check to cover our losses! Made me want to spit!
Nina
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No offense taken. Merry and I
actually talked for a while about this very thing-- how the city attorney and
the city council started acting differently once Merry announced to them she
was going to take the case and put together a team of lawyers to fight it. She
said the team was going to be her, the criminal attorney Hideyo
found, and Hideyo's boyfriend, but she did not say that to the city people. She
just said a team would be litigating it, and she said they all
seemed very surprised and then started acting cooperative. I myself, in
my jobs as a legal aid lawyer, have seen over and over how differently people
with lawyers are treated. It is really shocking and appalling. One
of my jobs right now entails going through and reading most of the hearing
decisions that come out of the MA (I am telecommuting) welfare system
(administrative appeal decisions) to try to get a sense of systemic problems
that are occurring and to post relevant decisions on a website where legal aid
lawyers can see and use them. Most of the decisions are in cases where
the person did not have a lawyer. There are so many decisions that are
denied appeals, where if the person had had a lawyer I know they would have won
because they were completely in the right. It makes me very depressed.
Michelle
