United States v. Donte Taylor

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).