It had been a long day at the EPIC office. Their one paid assistant and all their volunteers had gone home, and Jessica was staying late to go over a few legal filings. She sighed, and her knee hit the leg of the folding table that was her desk, jostling everything. She steadied the table, keeping the stacks of paper neat.
Usually, she took her work home and went over things in bed, but the last two days had been so hard that it felt better to keep a wall between work and home. Besides, she didn’t want to wake her grandmother.
She filed the appeal on the bogus environmental study PL submitted. They’d just stuck it in the mail and started cutting before anyone even saw it. None of the local courts would take it, but she’d gotten the court of appeals in Sacramento to hear the case, but it
