It's been over a year since high-profile law firm Gonzalez and Leigh filed suit over former SFUSD chief Arlene Ackerman's "platinum parachute" termination package.

They lost the case in August, but appealed the decision. A lot can happen in a year, which might be why no one from the law firm managed to show up for Tuesday's hearing appealing the decision. (If a case is pro bono, is "well, you get what you paid for" an acceptable explanation to a client?)

It turns out that Gonzalez and Leigh moved offices last November, and while they claim they made the court aware of this change, the court still sent the notice to their old address. We decided to pretend to be real journalists for a moment, and called the USPS to ask them why Matt and Whit were left in the cold. (Hey, we want to make the most of our posting delays!) According to Le'Vette at 1-800-USPS, "a business can have their mail forwarded for six months. After six months, they can file another forward, and if they don't, the mail gets returned to sender."

We're assuming that the courts would have made a phone call or two if a hearing notice addressed to counsel was returned, so we have to wonder who's keeping all the mail that's being delivered to G&L's former address? And what else could these mail hoarders be reading? Secret taser missives? Documents listing the actual ages of fired for unhipness Mariott employees? Maybe it's time to renew that forward, guys.