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To: jpmac who wrote (29475)	6/18/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

No, ma'am. Otherwise we'd all be liable. G'night, JP, this is the Right Coast signing off.

To: jpmac who wrote (29475)	6/18/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You can sue anybody for anything anywhere in America for a $100 filing fee (your local mileage may vary). A young black woman a few years ago sued the President and the people in his cabinet for disappearing hundreds of thousands of young black women (missing from the census) and demanding an accounting. Because she paid her own filing fee, the judge could not dismiss her case sua sponte (on his own hook). Each defendant had to appear (by private attorney) and file an answer, the judge held a hearing and issued a long, sarcastic, amusing judgment. (It's somewhere on the web and perhaps in F. Supp.) Each year judges dismiss hundreds of thousands of frivolous cases sua sponte that are filed in forma pauperis (in the form of a pauper). Of course, the woman who filed the suit was poor and judgment proof. But she had enough money to file her case and inconvenience and insult the most distinguished politicians in the country.