Prof wrote:After reading the "all caps" silliness for years, I decided to take a look at a few government documents to see if everything was in "all caps:"
Here are how names appear on the following:
My birth certificate -- from the late 40's in SC -- is handwritten in large and small caps.
My childrens' birth certificates, (both were born at City Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.), are typed, upper and lower case.
My law license (Texas) is in upper and lower case.
My Westlaw Card is in upper case (all caps). So are all of my credit cards (except for the signature, which is upper/lower case script, of course).
My current Texas Driver's License/Bar Card/Concealed Weapons Permit are all in all caps.
My name in the various Matthew-Bender publications, to which I contributed, is in upper/lower case.
All of my diplomas, except HLS, and my commission from the 5th Cir., are upper and lower case.
Turbo Tax allows me to use upper and lower case for my tax returns.
I don't have my current passport handy, so I can't report that typescript, by my old passport shows all caps.
Pleadings filed by me in the US Courts and the State Courts (of Texas) are signed under a signature block that is upper/lower case. By the way, Bankruptcy Court records for individuals are often carried as upper/lower case in PACER, including the Petition, Schedules/Statements, and styles (e.g., In re Flores; Trustee v. Flores, etc.)-- There is no requirement that the style on pleadings be all caps. See generally, FRCivPro 10, "Form of Pleading," which does not specify that the Caption or names of the parties be in either all upper case and pleadings are filed in courts all over the country in upper/lower case for the names of the Plaintiff/Defendant, whether criminal or civil.
In short, the empirical evidence is that upper and lower or all caps is a MYTH (or, if you prefer, myth, or if you prefer Myth, or even large and small caps). So, sovereigns, get over it.
So you have "practiced law" earning the label/status of a "licensed attorney". Attorneys have always amazed me! What a breed! I have encountered very few whom didn't worship the very thing their "Monastery" (law school) taught them to 'worship' ~ Their many "gods" (aka statutes, regulations, case law, etc..)
I've also discovered their "Monastery" taught them that their "many gods" are very complex, thus attorney's became very complex in their perception of 'the law' themselves.
Now I am not putting you down, as I realize this is the path "attorneys" take in order to support themselves and their families.
Now, rather than taking a complex attorney approach, lets try to keep this simple. I read your 'laundry list' and I respect your achievements and accomplishments. To me it demonstrates vision, hard work, sacrifice, discipline, to say the very least. However, in an effort of keeping this real simple, I will pose the (simplified) reason why the Patriots of the us of A bitch about their name being printed in all UPPER case.
This is very simple. Patriots claim State governments create corporations/a corporations "name" in ALL UPPER CASE, and thus ALL UPPER CASE indicates a man-made entity. Honestly I have not verified this. The way to verify this is to review the papers of incorporation issued from a (any) said State Dept.
If said papers print the corporate name is ALL UPPER CASE, Patriots reason the State follows this agenda with any and all artifical entities they create, including your name when it appears in ALL UPPER CASE.
Quite frankly, I find this application of logic very sound.
However, being that we have "Courts of Equity", what judge wants to rule in favor of any plaintiff/defendant that would deny the court of any equity not in favor of the State? The judges first allegiance is to the State, am I not correct?
If I am overlooking something/anything "Professor" please kindly show me so.
Btw. "mr. irs"..."Nikki" , I will address your question to my username later 2day.