You May Need A Lawyer Sooner Than You Think

[jberryhill]

I don't know how he intends to serve process, but we're all in this thing together....



Full complaint here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.178704/gov.uscourts.mnd.178704.1.0.pdf

At least we get to keep the sand.

Something to keep in mind when you read "according to papers filed in federal court..."

[brooklynite]

1. Sorry folks, but I'm going to flip first...

[jberryhill]

2. Dammit

This is only going to work if we all stick together.

Trump was right! Flipping should be illegal!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. My coworkers think I'm out of this world.

I think that's what they mean.

[MineralMan]

4. Nuisance suit. Will be dismissed immediately for having no identifiable

defendant. Such nuisance suits are filed every day. They are not worth noticing.

However, the plaintiff has identified himself, along with his address. That's pretty foolish, I'd say. He appears to not be entirely well.

[jberryhill]

5. I think you should give him his stuff back, at least

In particular any and all vehicles (or compensation at market value).

[MineralMan]

7. Well, he can have my old 1991 Volvo 740 Wagon.

He'll have to find it, though, since I sold it a few years ago. Could be in the junkyard by now. But, he has my permission to buy it back from the guy I sold it to, if he can find him. I think that does it for my part of the lawsuit.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Hey, MM, is this a neighbor of yours?

"Not entirely well" seems to be a bit of an understatement. Pro se litigants often are as mad as a box of frogs but this guy seems to be especially... unwell.

[MineralMan]

12. Well, he's an East Sider, but that address is quite a ways from mine.

I don't know him, personally, but I certainly know his type. I'm sure he is well known in the law enforcement and judicial community, though. So far, I haven't looked further into that individual. I may, if I have some spare time.

Of course, he will take the dismissal of that woebegone filing as further evidence of the conspiracy against him. I hope he is a harmless type, but he could well be somewhat unpredictable, so I don't care to meet him personally, as you can probably imagine.

Wackadoo First Class.

OK, a Google search for his full name, in quotes, turns up a wealth of fascinating information. To wit:

https://www.juralindex.com/david-kostuch.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. If you check MNCIS, there's more.

He has been civilly committed a couple of times. Poor bastard really is unwell. http://pa.courts.state.mn.us/Search.aspx?ID=200

[MineralMan]

18. Yeah. I think I'm done looking into him.

Except to note the name and avoid ever having anything to do with that name. I'm not fond of dealing with weird folks too much.

[Yavin4]

6. I say we counter sue for $100 millilon

Fuck you David Richard Kostuch.

[Shrike47]

8. I'm willing to forego using his intellectual property.

[gratuitous]

9. Kostuch again!

Sorry you all had to get dragged into this. Luckily I have Melvin Belli on retainer to deal with this guy.

[rsdsharp]

10. I think jurisdiction is better predicated on the 21st Amendment.

If it hadn't repealed the 18th, this guy might not be so drunk.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. There are few things that inspire fear and loathing among court staff

as much as pro se litigants. They have to file their batshit crazy pleadings; some poor law clerk has to read them, and some judge has to at least write an order, if not an opinion. Back in the Pleistocene era when I was in law school I compiled a collection of court decisions in cases brought by crazy people. One of these is pretty well-known: United States ex rel. Mayo v. Satan and his Staff, 54 F.R.D. 282 (1971), https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Gerald_Mayo_v._Satan_and_His_Staff. There's another one I can't remember the name of now, but it was another federal case where the plaintiff sued various government agencies for broadcasting radio signals into his brain. The court dismissed the case, of course, and snarkily suggested in a brief opinion that the plaintiff could solve his problems easily by simply attaching a chain of paper clips to his pants cuffs, which would ground him so he wouldn't get any more broadcasts. And then there's 12 So.2d 305, which every law student knows, and in schools where they still have books you can stand that one on its spine and it will automatically open to that page.

[jberryhill]

15. He should at least hire Laser Haas

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. I wasn't gonna say it...

Or Michael Avenatti.

[jberryhill]

20. First, he'll need a retainer of...

...one million dollars!





Separated at birth?

[chowder66]

14. This is sad. But.....

if you read it as one of Trump's other made up characters, it's a hoot.

[elfin]

19. Have I ever told you my middle name is "Flip?"

One for all and all for ME.

Nice knowin' ya.