Tickle Me, Elmo Fred; Griffiths
If you enjoyed the Best Notice of Appeal Ever, as well as the complaint in Ward v. Arm & Hammer, you'll enjoy our latest pro se filing, too.
It's an interesting challenge to jurisdiction, filed by a fellow who legally changed his name to Elmo Fred; Griffiths. (Yes, the semicolon is legally part of his name.) The case is a guardianship proceeding for Griffiths's mother, Ruth Griffiths, brought by one of Elmo's siblings.
Here's the first page:
And there's more. The rest of the document appears after the jump.
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OPINION OF THE COURT
Elmo Fred; Griffiths purports to challenge the "subject matter jurisdiction" of the court on the ground that he has "properly expatriated from all the society(s) rule(s) and regulation(s) of the above privilege seeking society(s)."
The court construes his motion as a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and denies the motion. See the Civil War.
No costs.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 20, 2006 02:05 PM
Anyone who clerked in the last fifteen or twenty years easily recognizes the symptoms of a "sovereign citizen" tax protestor loon, who seemed to think that punctuation and capitalization had magical legal properties to trick people into waiving legal rights. NB also the refusal to capitalize "United" in "United States."
Posted by: Ted | December 20, 2006 02:16 PM
I picture him wearing a tin-foil hat while writing that.
Posted by: Wow | December 20, 2006 02:25 PM
The best part is his invocation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. How many anti-government wing-nuts cite UN documents? If there's anything worse than the federal government, it's WORLD government.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 20, 2006 02:46 PM
I was the lead attorney on this case and the scary part is that this was a family matter.
Posted by: Justin D Heideman | April 24, 2007 06:25 PM