Dear Mr. Garmel, 

As summer faded and turned into autumn, my thoughts have
from time to time found their way to you, grateful for your
help and sympathy in the earlier stages of the litigation;
and I have asked myself with how much information about
current goings-on I should importune you. As you are probably
aware, once an appeal is docketed, there is a narrow and rigid
time-frame within which the brief and the record appendix need
to be filed. I worked feverishly, and I understood that if I
asked for your help I would unavoidably subject you to similar
pressures, a situation which, since I did not pay you, I
considered inappropriate.  Foolishly or otherwise, I was
not dissatisfied the with arguments that occurred to me.
In addition to the Brief for the Appellant and the Record
Appendix, I have filed two motions and written a letter to the
Clerk in response to an informal communication from the Assistant
Attorney General. The motions and the letter have been referred
to the panel adjudicating my case. I also filed with the Supreme
Judicial Court an application for Direct Appellate Review. This
application was denied. 

On the web space furnished by my Internet service provider I
have stored text files of the documents I have submitted. I
thought it more discrete not to list these files in the index
of my home page but to reserve access to them to interested
individuals like yourself. They are not password protected.
The URL is:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jochenmeyer/litigation/litig_index.html

I'm not sure it's worth your while even to glance at these papers,
but I should be pleased and flattered if you did. But please don't
spend time on them. Since I receive the opposition filings only as
hard copy, they must be scanned into pdf files, for which there is
insufficient space on my website, but which I could forward to you
as e-mail attachments if they were of interest.

Meanwhile I have long since reconciled myself to losing the appeal
and I am looking forward to the different set of challenges with
which I will then be faced. I suspect my conversations with you will
remain among the most pleasant memories of this fascinating business,
and I anticipate with pleasure talking with you again on the 'phone
when it suits your convenience.

I hope that you and your family are happy and well. With best wishes,
Sincerely,
Ernst Meyer