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MOM WINS 5th CIRCUIT APPEAL PRO SE

This is very cool and warms my heart:

"Julie Cavalier says her appellate victory went against legal advice. "We contacted a few attorneys, but no one seemed to want to take on such a huge task," she says. "Several attorneys told us we had no chance [of obtaining a reversal].

"We believed in what we were doing," she says. "When you feel you are doing the right thing, it is far easier to defend. A mother will do just about anything for her child, and I did not like seeing my child being discriminated against."

She credits her father, John Byrd, also not a lawyer, with his legal research in the case. "He was the legal brains, and I was the voice."

posted by majqa @ 1:24 PM