{"id":27735,"date":"2016-05-06T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T17:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=27735"},"modified":"2016-05-06T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T17:35:56","slug":"gotta-problem-with-god-sue-him-or-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=27735","title":{"rendered":"Gotta problem with god? Sue him. Or her."},"content":{"rendered":"

My thanks to the inimitable Kevin Underhill and his Lowering The Bar blog for this great, GREAT story about a Haifa guy who has filed a petition against god. Pro se.<\/em> I mean, the plaintiff is pro se<\/em>. God may or may not retain an attorney to respond. But that’s just my guess.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 Times of Israel reports<\/a> that a resident of Haifa<\/a>, who was not identified but who, statistically, is 82% likely to have been\u00a0an Israelite, filed a petition in the Magistrate\u2019s Court there for a restraining order against God. The reporter apparently has a transcript of the hearing, and yet has failed to link it, which hath caused me to rent my garments and wail in frustration (working at home today).<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the report, however, the man argued (representing himself, unsurprisingly) that over the past three years the Defendant\u00a0has \u201cexhibited a seriously negative attitude toward him,\u201d though no details are provided. Given the attitude He is displaying towards some other people at the moment, and mainly the Syrians come to mind but also the people of America, whom He has afflicted with\u00a0Donald Trump, the petitioner\u00a0must have been through some real hardship if he can call the attitude \u201cseriously negative.\u201d But so far we don\u2019t know what his suffering entailed.<\/em><\/p>\n

The report says that the petitioner told the court he had tried to get a restraining order from police several times during his three-year ordeal, but all they would do was send a patrol car to his home. I assume they were going there to check on the petitioner, not to see whether God was really causing a disturbance. The presiding judge also suggested the petitioner needed someone to check on him, saying he \u201cneeded help not from the court but from other sources.\u201d He wisely denied the petition.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is not, of course, the first time somebody has tried to sue God<\/a>, but previous attempts haven\u2019t been any more successful. You have problems right off the bat with service of process, and that\u2019s just the beginning.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My thanks to the inimitable Kevin Underhill and his Lowering The Bar blog for this great, GREAT story about a Haifa guy who has filed a petition against god. Pro se. I mean, the plaintiff is pro se. God may … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,632],"tags":[1047,672],"class_list":["post-27735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-the-god-problem","tag-restraining-orders","tag-the-god-problem-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t