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[Dr. Caligari]

This case has just about every SovCit buzzword I've ever heard, plus a few new ones:

http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pu ... WXVMIn0%3D

Fake Indian tribe. Plaintiff who claims he's a king (and a deity!). Admiralty law. Louisiana Purchase. Suit vs. foreign heads of state. Monopolization of "intergalactic commerce." Yep, every imaginable kind of cray-cray, all in 5 double-spaced pages.

[notorial dissent]

I don't think he got them all, but he definitely gets cred for trying. I really do like the "monopolization of intergalactic commerce" bit though, I think he does get extra credit for that, but again nothing to back it up, so boring.

[grixit]

Time to make a claim under the Shadow Proclamation.

[Gregg]

The proposed second amended
complaint attempts to name these additional defendants: Secretary of the
Interior Ryan Zinke, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, King Felipe VI of Spain,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, President Emmanuel Macron of
France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Theresa May
of the United Kingdom, Pope Francis, President Xi Jinping of China, President
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of Libya,
President George Weah of Liberia, Prime Minister Antonio Costa of Portugal,
and President Donald J. Trump

He forgot Zaphod Beeblebrox, The President of the Galaxy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8U86BgtZA4

[notorial dissent]

Must think adding more names to the thing will make it fly better, when it never got off the ground to begin with.

So many fake Indian tribes, haven't heard of this one before, wonder if it's a homegrown one off?

The Emperor of the Universe here is apparently a Baton Rouge attorney. Claims various connections to the Atakapa-Ishak Nation.

[Gregg]

Tribal lawsuits should have to be filed written in the tribal language.

[TBL]

Is no one going to mention the appellate court's use of "gumbo" in their denial of appeal?

The claims were based on a gumbo of
federal and state laws, including eighteenth-century federal treaties with
France and Spain, as well as sources such as the “Pactum De Singularis
Caelum, [or] the Covenant of One Heaven.”

I mean, kudos to them for adding a little tongue-in-cheek reference to a historically Creole dish.

[notorial dissent]

Tribal lawsuits should have to be filed written in the tribal language.

Then it would at least be true authentic indigenous frontier gibberish. Still of no information of legal significance, but at least it would be authentic.

[fortinbras]

The original link no longer works but this is another version of the same decision:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_ca ... ylo=2019


Atapaka Indian de Creole Nation v. Louisiana (5th Cir, Dec. 10, 2019)

The loonytoon is the lawyer (yes, a genuine lawyer - but with a dismal track record and, after this case, a dismal future) Edward R. Moses Jr.