A Brief That Should Never Have Been Filed
Faisal Kutty
Lawyer | TEDx Speaker | Writer | Affiliate Faculty, Rutgers CSRR | Associate Professor of Law Emeritus, Valparaiso University | Former Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School | follow @faisalkutty | Views my own.
WARNING: Profanity
“F*ck this court and everything it stands for,” is the title of Tamah Jada Clark’s brief filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on April 20, 2015. Her vulgar nine-page brief was submitted to challenge the dismissal of a lawsuit she had personally filed earlier on behalf of herself, her husband and her child. The self-described "Floridian-American" claims that her civil rights were violated five years ago when she was arrested for plotting to break her husband, Jason, out of prison.
Justice Willis B. Hunt, Jr. dismissed her lawsuit because she had failed to sign her complaint and because a pro se plaintiff could not represent others.
Her well written nine-page tirade unleashes a torrent of profanity at the justice and other agents of the government. As The Daily Caller writes:
"Clark identifies with the “sovereign citizen” movement, a group of individuals who reject the authority of the U.S. federal government and its courts. Fittingly, her memo is full of what is, to say the least, a dismissive attitude towards Judge Willis Hunt and other agents of the government....You think because you sit up there in that little black robe hiding behind the ignorance of the masses like a little b*tch, that ANYBODY gives a d*mn about you or what you have to say?” Clark says. “Well, just in case you haven’t noticed-I couldn’t give two f*cks about you or what you have to say. F*ck you, old man. You’re a joke. Your court’s a joke. You take it up the a*s; and you suck nuts. Lol.”
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Faisal Kutty, is an associate professor of law and director of the International LL.M. Program at Valparaiso University Law School and an adjunct professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He is also a co-founder of KSM Law. He blogs at the Huffington Post and his academic articles are archived at SSRN.