Here's the 14-page court docket for Jim Bell's case through August 25, 2001: http://cryptome.org/jdb082501.htm This lists several of Jim's appeals, the last on August 14. For a flavor of what's been going on to deny Jim his rights here's a footnote to a "Sentencing Memorandum" of August 9 by Robert Leen, Jim's attorney (docket No. 184): "Within the past week undersigned counsel obtained a copy of the class action lawsuit the defendant has filed in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Among the accusations in the Complaint is a litany of alleged ethical violations, criminal acts and misdeeds that undersigned counsel purportedly committed in conjunction with the Court and other court officers. In response to complaints the defendant has made to this court, the WSBA and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, undersigned counsel has repeatedly moved to withdraw or, in the alternative, permit the defendant to represent himself. These requests have been denied. Inasmuch as the defendant has objected to undersigned counsel taking any action on his behalf undersigned counsel asks that the Court not rely upon any argument made in this sentencing memorandum unless expressly adopted by the defendant." ----- No private mail on this topic, responses only to cpunks without cc to me, thanks.