Anyone who has done this law thing for awhile surely has been done wrong by a court of appeals — or at least thinks so. Upon vowing to “take it all the way to the Texas Supreme Court,” the odds are that the lawyer failed. According to the 2010 Annual Report for the Texas Judiciary: Fiscal Year 2010, published by the Office of Court Administration, the court granted only about 12 percent of its petitions for review in 2010. Trying to become part of that 12 percent can make one feel like a child tugging on the skirt of a preoccupied parent (“Mom. Mom! MOM!!”) or perhaps the teacher’s pet shooting a hand to the ceiling trying to get called on.
Someone trying to get the court’s attention could write an offensive petition in a goofy font. But a more effective approach would be to emphasize:
