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- From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Good Legal Writing
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:12:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.212823.10185@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.212823.10185@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
- dpollard@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dennis B Pollard) writes:
- > My favorite is the case in which a federal judge dismisses a case brought
- > against the devil. I believe that it was U.S. ex rel. Moyer v. Satan and
- > his Helpers. Every first-year should read this civil procedure classic.
-
- I saw you already corrected to U.S. ex rel. Mayer v. Satan and his Staff, but
- it's still a little off. The actual caption is U.S. ex rel. Mayo v Satan and
- his staff. The cite for that, incidentally, is 54 F.R.D. 282 (W.D. Pa.,
- 1971). The civil procedure question is, of course, service of process.
-
- Civ Pro seems to attract the interesting cases. For other good ones, see:
-
- - Ned Seawright v. New Jersey, 412 F. Supp. 413 (D.N.J., 1976), noting that
- injection of plaintiff's eye with a radium beam so that he now hears voces
- talking to him on the inside of his brain is a mere state tort, and not a
- civil rights violation justifying federal subject matter jurisdiction. The
- case is most interesting for the suggested alternate measures of recovery
- suggested by the judge.
-
- - Noble v. Bedford Marine, 789 F. Supp. 395 (S.D. Fla., 1992), sorting out
- the difficulties in determining if subject matter juridsdiction may be
- created by joinder. The opinion is written in the style of Wayne's World.
- It may be found on Lexis by searching for 'schwing and "hurling chunks"'.
- For those curious, the holding was that the joined party's most bugus attempt
- at removal is "not worthy" and the defandants must party on in state court.
-
- Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
- The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
-