Bowlin v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• finding that neither a birth certificate nor a social security number evidence a contract on which a party can sue the United States
• stating that “neither birth certificates nor social security numbers recognize or impose contractual rights, obligations, or duties” (quotation omitted)
• noting that a sovereign citizen may assert that he or she “is a sovereign, not a United States citizen, and therefore is entitled to obtain certain funds under a theory known as ‘redemption’”
• noting that a sovereign citizen may assert that he or she “is a sovereign, not a United States citizen, and therefore is entitled to obtain certain funds under a theory known as ‘redemption’”
• rejecting notion that a birth certificate creates a contract that confers the right to sue or otherwise imposes obligations upon the Federal government
• rejecting sovereign citizen’s theory that financing statements filed under the Uniform Commercial Code created a contract with the United States

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).