Wikipedia says he was represented by the Institute for Justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana

Otherwise, yes, Timbs would have to pay. You can file a petition to ask the court to waive your court costs (there's a Latin legal term for it that I believe means "with pockets turned out" or "with pockets empty" but I can't remember it), but your lawyer's time isn't covered by that.

I think in forma pauperis is the phrase you're looking for (but its literal meaning isn't what you suggest).

That is it, yes.

For reference, in forma pauperis means "in the shape of a poor man"; pockets aren't mentioned. As far as I'm aware, the Romans didn't have pockets and so there would be no way to express the concept in Latin.

Latin was the international language of Europe for almost a thousand years after the collapse of the Roman Empire, during which time many scientific advancements were made. There are plenty of Latin words for things that didn't exist in Antiquity.

There are tiny communities who use recreational Latin today. Here's the Vicipaedia article on the telephonum: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephonum

But that doesn't really constitute a good argument that there is a Latin word for telephones.

Given that telephone is Ancient Greek (though obviously coined more recently), I don't see why there shouldn't be a Latin word for it.

Thank you, beautiful refutation of an argumentative quarralous, I would even say bad faith, assertion, which we see entirely to often now imo.

I had no idea this existed, and you just made my day with it.

> As far as I'm aware, the Romans didn't have pockets and so there would be no way to express the concept in Latin.

I know this is probably not meant to be funny, but for whatever reason, in reading it, I couldn't help but laugh.

Others have more specific answers, but more broadly if you have a case that's Supreme Court worthy there are numerous organizations willing to step in to represent your side. The ACLU is sort of built on this principle.

pro bono. I think IJR is involved in this: https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/

More generally, I believe that by the time a cases nears the level of the Supreme Court, legal fees typically become less of an issue in practice. There are many orgs on bath sidee that fund cases with important precedent, and plenty of great lawyers willing to argue for free since it's so prestigious.

Institute for Justice: https://ij.org/about-us/

You can help out too: https://ij.org/support/give-now