Write a brief in 140 characters? Ryan Bates and Cam Barker took the challenge and put their writing skills to the test in the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section’s second annual Twitter Brief Competition. Ryan won the “Best Haiku” category with:
Hope springs eternal,
But second or
successive.
Deny habeas.
Cam’s entry took third place overall with:
@FedCourt: Turns out our
headquarters is in Texas too. No
diversity; please vacate judgment.
Sorry, plaintiffs. /s/Defendant
All of the winning twitter briefs were announced at the Section’s Annual Meeting. Follow this link for the full list of winning tweets, and this link to follow Yetter Coleman on Twitter.