How to Sue God

When lawyers sue God, it's a real David and Goliath battle.

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[LegalEagle]

🦅 Any crazy legal stories I should cover?

[hughcaldwell]

"God continues to evade US law enforcement, " is a sentence I didn't know I needed. Got an almost Douglas Adams feel to it.

[jayit]

"Defendent is omnipresent therefore in this county" is just legal genius

[thetheory]

"Satan is a foreign prince and can claim sovereign immunity"

People actually going with this is hilarious

[Howtheheckarehandleswit]

The judge in that first case was absolutely just having a laugh, there's no way that much detail was actually needed to reject the case

[felphero]

"How to Sue God"
It has finally happened. Legal Eagle has become too powerful

[VampireNewl]

I remember hearing the story of a cult leader who tried to sue former members making a copy of his holy text only to find out that since the text was attributed to god he was only cassified as a scribe and not in control of the copyright

[Unsensitive]

If I was the judge, I would totally grant the defendant his motions because Satan failed to appear in court.

Once the police are able to locate Satan, he can appropriately be held accountable for his actions.

Perhaps they can contract God, as he knows where Satan is.

[thatjillgirl]

I just really like the fact that the one guy sued Satan *and his staff.* It just conjures such a humorous mental image of Satan having like some accountants and an HR guy and whatnot.

[HomoErectusIsAFunnyName]

Fun fact: Satan originally meant 'prosecutor' in ancient Hebrew. So lawyers working for Satan isn't even that far fetched.

[hannahhengler.]

That judge must have been so happy to get a creative writing assignment after all those years.

[eileennovak]

As a Douglas County resident, I can tell you, The Honorable Senator Ernie Chambers is one of the finest statesman to serve. He truly represented his constituents with grace & brilliance. Any 'stunts' had purpose. Mad Respect~

[anthonylittle]

The court could have simply struck out the motion on the first grounds: the plaintiff failed to establish that the court had jurisdiction over God. I like that the judge had the sense of humour to find lower order reasons to reject the motion.

[Princess_May]

The judge really had fun writing his response to the devil suit. It was probably the highlight of his week

[goatbone]

"God continues to evade American law enforcement." Laughed way too hard at that one.

[tetsuoironman]

The Satan lawsuit strikes me as a creative form of social critique ("society is to blame") and the judge clearly took the time to write a clever response. As for the Senators suit, it shows the difficulty of educating the public regarding technical (and in this case, foundational) rules of process, such as déni de justice.

[lillianward]

I think my favorite thing about these cases is hearing the judges reasonings for not taking the cases, especially the ones where they say it’s out of their jurisdiction.

[sebastianjennings]

Ernie Chambers actually is one of the only reasons NE can split its electoral votes. If I recall he was the tie breaking vote to an amendment changing NE to a winner take all state a few years back. He's also a fierce advocate for his district, which is an extremely poor minority majority district. Good man.

[xyryyn]

I would remind the court that there are several "Houses of God" in Omaha with published addresses and designated agents, and that leaving a complaint with a competent adult at such an address could constitute effective service under the Nebraska Rules of Civil Procedure.

[MonkeyJedi]

Here's the problem with the first case.
In the song, The Devil went "down" to Georgia, where "down" is used in the vernacular to mean 'Southward'.
While this does somewhat narrow down the possible locations of The Devil's home address to be somewhere North of the state of Georgia (other clues in the song preclude it meaning the country of Georgia), it leaves a lot of possibilities.
The case should have been postponed until The Devil could be located and properly served.