[blindLaw] Fighting together: A blind lawyer on his journey clerking for Supreme Court Justice Chandrachud

[Rob Hudson]

Every country is guilty of that. Ethnocentricism. Nothing new.

----- Original Message -----
From: Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
To: "tim at timeldermusic.com" <tim at timeldermusic.com>
Cc: Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>, "blindlaw at nfbnet.org" =
<blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:27:16 +0000
Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Fighting together: A blind lawyer on his journey =
clerking for Supreme Court Justice Chandrachud

> They do have relevance in other jurisdictions, of course. I just found it =
profoundly tone-deaf and presumptuous to cite chapter and verse about =
what can be done better in a completely different jurisdiction from the =
one that the article is about. Without even acknowledging that you were =
doing so. As though American law is a shared vocabulary here that =
everyone should know.
> 
> Rahul
> 
> 
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> From: tim at timeldermusic.com <tim at timeldermusic.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:09:50 PM
> To: 'Rahul Bajaj' <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>
> Cc: blindlaw at nfbnet.org <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: RE: [blindLaw] Fighting together: A blind lawyer on his journey =
clerking for Supreme Court Justice Chandrachud
> 
> Rahul
> 
> I don't mean to detract from the issues that blind lawyers around the =
world experience.  I cannot speak to practical specifics about lawyers in =
other jurisdictions.  Being as the super majority of the people on this =
list are U.S. attorneys or law students, I merely meant to highlight some =
improvements we can make in the U.S. in consideration of your great =
article.  Would searchability and artificial intelligence applications =
have no relevance to other PDF filing systems outside of the United =
States?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2021 1:47 PM
> To: tim at timeldermusic.com
> Cc: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Fighting together: A blind lawyer on his journey =
clerking for Supreme Court Justice Chandrachud
> 
> Thanks, Vaughn and Tim.
> 
> Tim, you'll forgive me for my impertinence, but the US is not the only =
jurisdiction in the world in which there exist blind lawyers. Given what =
country the article was about, some suggestions that were not so insular =
and myopic in scope would have certainly made me feel better.
> 
> Warmly,
> Rahul
> 
> On 13/09/2021, tim at timeldermusic.com <tim at timeldermusic.com> wrote:
> > Nice article.  Also, a reminder that accessible PDFs are searchable
> > and can be analyzed by artificial intelligence.
> >
> > There is no reason ECF/PACER couldn't have an automatic policy
> > rejecting any filing that lacked text.  Perhaps some categories get
> > excluded for pro se and exhibits.  Relying on local rule for such =
policies is not workable.
> > Maybe someone at the AOC could implement this instead of wasting time
> > on web accessibility overlays.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2021 1:05 PM
> > To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> > Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Fighting together: A blind lawyer on his
> > journey clerking for Supreme Court Justice Chandrachud
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just realized that the link in the previous mail was broken. Here is
> > the correct link:
> > https://scroll.in/article/1004657/fighting-together-a-blind-lawyer-on-
> > his-journey-clerking-for-supreme-court-justice-chandrachud
> >
> > Rahul
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/09/2021, Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> link:
> >> =
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> >> =
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> >> Rahul
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> --
> >> Rahul Bajaj
> >> Senior Resident Fellow,
> >> Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi, India Rhodes Scholar (India
> >> and Linacre 2018) University of Oxford
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Rahul Bajaj
> > Senior Resident Fellow,
> > Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi, India Rhodes Scholar (India
> > and Linacre 2018) University of Oxford
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> --
> Rahul Bajaj
> Senior Resident Fellow,
> Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi, India Rhodes Scholar (India and =
Linacre 2018) University of Oxford
> 
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