«We read pool memos with care and the judgment that comes with experience,» she once
told Docket Sheet, a newsletter published for Supreme Court employees.
But what if I
told you that this does happen, and that at least some courts with these procedures have no efficient way of handling fax filings, and that in these courts, a default may be taken despite a faxed response to a pleading, while the fax sits gathering dust in the central repository awaiting entry onto a
docket sheet?