OPPOSED MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE INITIAL BRIEF
FEB 27, 2023 | REPUBLISHED BY LIT: FEB 27, 2023
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has processed the recently widowed, elder Appellant’s appeal, assigned the appellate case number and noticed March 20, 2023 as the deadline for submission of the Appellant’s Brief.
On February 17, 2023, Appellant, Joanna Burke, requested this appeal be transferred to the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in the “interests of justice”.
On February 23, 2023, Appellees submitted a motion for an extension of time to respond to the Appellant’s request for venue transfer which this court has granted and extended until February 6, 2023.
Appellant today, February 27, 2023, timely requests this court extend the briefing schedule for a period of ninety days for the reasons set out in the above motion(s) along with the fact Appellant cannot possibly prepare the opening brief until venue is decided.
Why? Briefs are limited by word-count and the argument presented will be structured based on whether Appellant is addressing the “judicial machinery itself” which directly caused the harm, namely this Circuit, or whether Appellant is addressing an independent Circuit Court which is not familiar with the history and facts of the underlying litigation.
See Judge James Ho’s dissent from only five days ago, admitting and affirming Appellants like Joanna Burke cannot possibly receive a fair and impartial tribunal at the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit;
“Even worse, we’re not just getting the First Amendment backwards. We’re also getting qualified immunity backwards. Just compare the denial of en banc rehearing here with some of our other recent en banc decisions.” Gonzalez v. Trevino, No. 21-50276, at *13 (5th Cir. Feb. 22, 2023), and;
“Put simply, “we grant immunity when we should deny-and we deny immunity when we should grant.” Horvath v. City of Leander, 946 F.3d 787, 795 (5th Cir. 2020) (Ho, J., concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part). Indeed, ours is the rare circuit that has been summarily reversed by the Supreme Court for both wrongly granting and wrongly denying qualified immunity.”
Gonzalez v. Trevino, No. 21-50276, at *14 (5th Cir. Feb. 22, 2023).
In Appellant’s own case(s), judicial immunity has been granted, when clearly it should have been denied.
CONCLUSION
This motion for an extension of ninety days until Monday, June 20, 2023 should be GRANTED.