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· 10/29/2002

Pembroke School Committee v. Veader

Citations

  • 809 A.2d 624
  • 2002 ME 161
  • 2002 Me. LEXIS 186
  • 2002 WL 31650874

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that a sovereign citizen’s belief that he or she is “neither subject to federal law nor federal courts’ jurisdiction” is meritless
  • noting that sovereign citizens “generally believe that they are neither subject to federal law nor federal courts’ jurisdiction” and that their claims “of course, lack merit”
  • noting that sovereign citizens “generally believe that they are neither subject to federal law nor federal courts’ jurisdiction” and that their claims “of course, lack merit”
  • recognizing sovereign citizens’ right to represent themselves “despite their frivolous beliefs about the law”
  • collecting cases describing the general belief of so-called “sovereign citizens” that “they are neither subject to federal law nor federal courts’ jurisdiction”
  • “[C]ourts have repeatedly concluded that ‘sovereign citizens’ may represent themselves despite their frivolous beliefs about the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Alexander, Calkins, Clifford, Dana, Levy, Rudman, Saufley

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