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"Feds seek to halt inmate's frequent lawsuits"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this recent amusing AP article. Here is how it starts: A federal inmate who has filed more than 3,800 lawsuits and targeted the famous, the infamous and even the long-dead is now being sued by federal officials who want him to knock it off. Federal prosecutors who say they have had enough of the frivolous filings have filed a lawsuit of their own asking a judge to take unusual action to stop Jonathan Lee Riches.  Since 2006, Riches has filed lawsuits in nearly every jurisdiction in the country, court documents show. The inmate who dubbed himself "Lawsuit Zeus" in one of his thousands of court cases has filed up to four of his handwritten petitions a day in Kentucky courts alone. The 33-year-old inmate at the federal prison in Lexington has sued New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, former President George W...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).