Over at Passport, Mike Boyer alerts me to a unique piece of litigation:
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers has had enough of plagues, famines, droughts, hurricanes, and genocides. Chambers considers these incidents to be terrorists acts. To stop them, he's suing the person responsible for them?God.
Chambers, who before becoming a state legislator was a barber, filed a lawsuit last Friday in Nebraska's Douglas County District Court, naming himself as the plaintiff and God as the defendant, a permanent injunction "ordering defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats."
You can read the whole court filing by
clicking here.
Before the Voloh Conspiracy and Opinio Juris get a hold of this, I have to sday that my favorite bit is this: "Defendant has made
and continues to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons." Whoa there -- Chambers has
concrete information about these new threats?
After an allegation like that, if I was God's lawyer I'd advise him to
smite Chambers until his tongue fell out and his flesh was covered with boils countersue for libel.
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