uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070919/tod-us-j ... 56d_1.htmlWASHINGTON (AFP) - A court in Nebraska is being asked to cast judgement on the ultimate judge -- God.
State lawmaker Ernie Chambers filed a lawsuit Friday against the Almighty -- acknowledging he/she goes by numerous aliases -- for causing "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues" and other alliterative catastrophes.
The suit, Chambers vs God, asks the court for a "permanent injunction ordering defendant (God) to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terrorist threats" which affect innumerable persons, including Chambers's constituents.
It asserts that God is "the admitted perpetrator" of such acts and said that God's omnipresence gives the local Douglas County District Court jurisdiction in the suit, adding that God's omniscience eliminates the need to issue a formal notice of the lawsuit.
Chambers told local media he filed the suit to make a point about frivolous lawsuits frequently seen in US courts, citing a recent one against a judge.
He asked the court to award him an unspecified summary judgment against God, or, in the alternative, issue a permanent injunction against God engaging in the damaging acts cited in the filing.
Neither God nor his/her spokespersons could be contacted for comment.
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I don't remember the name. Had Billy Connelly in it... he played a man who sued God. Wait, that might have been the name! Yeah, it was called "The Man Who Sued God".
www.imdb.com/title/tt0268437/
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According to the article "Chambers told local media he filed the suit to make a point about frivolous lawsuits frequently seen in US courts, citing a recent one against a judge"
I would say he has a point. If you can legally file this kind of lawsuit then there are some changes that need to be made in our legal system.
I would say he has a point. If you can legally file this kind of lawsuit then there are some changes that need to be made in our legal system.
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I see where he's coming from, but that doesn't mean he should clog the courts w/ yet another pointless case.SoulBiter wrote:According to the article "Chambers told local media he filed the suit to make a point about frivolous lawsuits frequently seen in US courts, citing a recent one against a judge"
I would say he has a point. If you can legally file this kind of lawsuit then there are some changes that need to be made in our legal system.
Agreed. I think it's sad that our society suffers from such apathy and ignorance that a costly, and somewhat corrupt gesture such as this will, inevitably lead to this man's popularity increasing, while you and I just have to work a little harder in order to live our lives.
Ugh.
Ugh.
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