07/25/2011 Open Document MOTION filed by Appellants Donald R. Laster, Jr. and Nicholas Purpura for Entry of Default. [highlight]Response due on 08/08/2011[/highlight]. Certificate of Service dated 07/25/2011. (DW)

For the first time, I want a court to sit on a birther motion. Nothing makes me happier than the thought of these guys sitting there steaming as the Third Circuit doesn't respond to their motions. Especially after they file the same motion twice.

I also want no smackdown. I want a one-sentence order denying all the post-stay motions. I can't imagine anything that would more peeve these guys off than getting no explanation at all. Just feed into the victim psychosis.

Two New Jersey activists have filed another motion-for-default in their 15-count lawsuit against the health care reform bill.

Nicholas E. Purpura and Donald R. Laster Jr [highlight]filed a Motion for Entry of Default yesterday, for the court to consider on Monday morning.[/highlight] [good luck with that one ] The motion says that the US government has never answered six of the fifteen counts they have against the health care reform bill. The District Court did not grant them relief, so now they say that the Third Circuit must.

The District Court for New Jersey dismissed their complaint, after long delays, after accepting the defense argument that they lacked standing. That issue is on appeal to the Third Circuit. Thus far the government has made no answer to the Third Circuit except to ask for (and receive) an extension of time. They got the extension by saying, in essence, that they were too busy. Specifically, they were too busy defending the health care reform bill in four other cases.

Purpura and Laster are acting in pro se, that is, without benefit of a lawyer. Purpura has told your editor why he and Laster won’t have a lawyer. [highlight]At best, lawyers get in the way.[/highlight] [indeed they get in the way of lunatic clients who want to file totally baseless crap] In fact, judges can cut off lawyers in open court,[highlight]but cannot always cut off pro se plaintiffs[/highlight]. [too bad you won't get to test that little theory] At worst, lawyers, as “officers of the court,” [highlight]often feel obliged to protect the interests of the court apart from, above, and against their clients.[/highlight] Purpura and Laster see the health care reform bill as a prize example, and a culmination, of government corruption. Naturally they want to act against that corruption with as much freedom as they can keep.

Back to the case...

These guys are indeed funny, but also ridiculous and becoming just a little annoying.

New Docket Entry...





link shortly

Hurlbut has an "article" up on the latest ridiculous filing of these birfoons.

Break a leg, 3Lishell

Ditto!!

We've practically raised 3L... Been with us since 1L.

We're so proud of our little lawbaby! Good luck, eat a good breakfast, and wear clean underwear in case you get hit by a bus.

We're so proud of our little lawbaby! Good luck, eat a good breakfast, and wear clean underwear in case you get hit by a bus.

.... and I'm taking the bar tomorrow morning.

07/28/2011 Open Document ORDER (VANASKIE, Circuit Judge) denying Motion for Recusal of Judge Vanaskie filed by Appellants Nicholas Purpura and Donald R. Laster, Jr., filed. Panel No.: ACO-144. VANASKIE, Authoring Judge. (DW)

The foregoing motion is denied.

Emergency! Get out of here!!!! You might panic and quote OrlyLaw and the 0th Circuit !!!!!!!!!!!!!

08/01/2011 Open Document ORDER (SLOVITER, JORDAN and GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judges) The appellant's motion for an injunction pending appeal is denied. Appellant's motion to vacate the order granting the government an extension of time to file a response brief is denied. Appellant's motion for default of appeal and order for declaratory relief is also denied. Appellant's motion requesting that the court disclose the names of those judges who have recused themselves from this case is denied. Appellants motion for entry of default is denied., filed. Panel No.: BLD-236. GREENAWAY, JR., Authoring Judge. (DW)

08/01/2011 Open Document ORDER (GREENAWAY JR., Circuit Judge) denying Motion to Recuse Judge Greenaway, JR. filed by Appellants Nicholas Purpura and Donald R. Laster, Jr., filed. Panel No.: BLD-236. GREENAWAY, JR., Authoring Judge. (DW)

I smell another piece of Hurlbutt coming.

I smell another piece of Hurlbutt coming.

[blah, blah, blah, standing, Bond v U.S. etc.]

Delays in the appeal

Today Purpura and Laster filed a motion for an en banc hearing, and [highlight]wrote an angry letter to Chief Judge Theodore A. McKee[/highlight] of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. They listed seven separate motions and requests that the court has ignored or [highlight]denied on specious grounds[/highlight].

These motions and requests concern two specific issues. First, as soon as Purpura and Laster filed their appeal, the Justice Department requested an extension of time. The only argument that they offered was that they had four other briefs on cases about the health care reform bill also due in July. In short, they argued that they were too busy. The Third Circuit’s own rules say that counsel cannot get an extension of time merely because he is too busy. But the court’s chief clerk extended the time anyway—for 30 days, well over the 14-day limit that the rules set. Purpura and Laster have asked the court to vacate the extension. When the original deadline passed, they also filed for summary judgment. The court has ignored both motions. [hey guys... check your mail. Or maybe your yahoos]
Appellant's motion to vacate the order granting the government an extension of time to file a response brief is denied and Appellant's motion for default of appeal and order for declaratory relief is also denied.

[snip they won't tell me who recused themselves and two judges denined our request for recusal and Obama appointed them (forget the Senate confirmations) ]

The two plaintiffs have now filed a Motion to Recall and Vacate and Request for Judicial Intervention by an En Banc Court. [whatever the hell that is] They list seven motions and requests that the court has ignored or handled inappropriately:

Show Cause Order for a TRO which has still not been signed; (Ignored)
Motion to Vacate a procedurally infirm Extension of Time; (Ignored)
Motion for a Summary Judgment; (Ignored)
Motion for Recusal; July 15, 2011 (Denied July 28, 2011)
Request for the names of judges that recused themselves; (Ignored)
A request to be informed of which Judges are on the panel; (Ignored)
Entry of a Motion Entry for Default. (Ignored)

08/01/2011 Open Document ORDER (SLOVITER, JORDAN and GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judges) The appellant's motion for an injunction pending appeal is denied. Appellant's motion to vacate the order granting the government an extension of time to file a response brief is denied. Appellant's motion for default of appeal and order for declaratory relief is also denied. Appellant's motion requesting that the court disclose the names of those judges who have recused themselves from this case is denied. Appellants motion for entry of default is denied., filed. Panel No.: BLD-236. GREENAWAY, JR., Authoring Judge. (DW)

08/01/2011 Open Document ORDER (GREENAWAY JR., Circuit Judge) denying Motion to Recuse Judge Greenaway, JR. filed by Appellants Nicholas Purpura and Donald R. Laster, Jr., filed. Panel No.: BLD-236. GREENAWAY, JR., Authoring Judge. (DW)