For want of the proper form, an incarcerated person’s writ is lost; for want of legal understanding, their cause is lost. But where human dignity is valued, no petition should be denied because it was written on the wrong stationery. Lawyers learn and argue the law in an information rich universe, prisoners litigate their dignity from the lost world of confinement. And judges are left to balance the inequities of form over substance, print over electronic, prison over procedure.
In this fast-paced era of e-filing, electronic discovery and forms that fill themselves, there is still a disenfranchised constituency outside the precincts of Internet heaven: the incarcerated.1
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