Sturkey v. Director of SCDC

How courts have described this case

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• declining to grant leave to proceed in forma pauperis in a case brought by adherents to a “Moorish Movement” related to sovereign citizenship
• declining to grant leave to proceed in forma pauperis in a case brought by adherents to a “Moorish Movement” related to sovereign citizenship
• explaining the myth of the “Moorish Movement” and other similar fictions such as “sovereign citizens” and their motives
• explaining the myth of the “Moorish Movement” and other similar fictions such as “sovereign citizens” and their motives
• stating that the fact that plaintiffs aver they “possess no ‘gold or silver coins’ changes nothing for the purposes of this Court’s analysis, since such fact, even if true, does not indicate that Plaintiffs do not have assets within the meaning of Section 1915(a)”
• noting sovereign citizens often resort to \paper terrorism\ which can involve the filing of \fraudulent liens\ which are \easy to file\ but \are very burdensome to remove\

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