“Washington lawyer Goldstein asks US appeals court to overturn tax conviction”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.

You can access the Brief for Appellant filed Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link. The brief consists of 17,990 words, in the hope that the Fourth Circuit will grant Goldstein’s pending motion, which the prosecution has opposed, to file an opening brief consisting of not more than 18,000 words.