In this post — part of a in a series on the technique of storytelling in an appellate brief by using stock stories as a framework for the narrative argument — I’m going to discuss an example of storytelling in a winning appeal brief I filed with the Alabama Supreme Court. The Alabama Supreme Court’s opinion in the case is published at Austin, et al. v. Alabama Check Cashers Ass’n, et al., 936 So.2d 1014 (Ala. 2005). I represented the Austins and other payday loan borrowers as intervenors in an action where the State Banking Dept. has been sued by and reached a consent agreement with the Alabama Check Cashers Association, which was actually a group of payday lenders seeking to evade application of Alabama’s usury law.…