Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Team Coleman filing appeal Monday


TPM:

On a conference call with reporters just now, the Coleman legal team announced that they are formally filing their notice of appeal today with the state Supreme Court, and will now await an order from that court to have briefs submitted and to schedule oral arguments.

"We do believe that the district court got it wrong on the law," said legal spokesman Ben Ginsberg, "and wrong because the Minnesota tradition and law are to enfranchise people, and their decision disenfranchises many Minnesotans, whose votes have been wrongly rejected."

Coleman attorney Jim Langdon laid out the campaign's hopes at the state Supreme Court -- that the state Supreme Court is not bound by the same rules as the trial court, but can instead make and clarify those rules.
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