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Friday funnies from the DC Circuit

By Douglas A. Berman

Though not really a sentencing case, an introductory parargraph of the DC Circuit's work this morning in Hurt v. SSA, No. 06-5339 (DC Cir. Oct. 3, 2008) (available here), does mention the Eighth Amendment.  And, more importantly, it provides some levity at the end of a long work week:An extraordinary number of people, institutions, and inanimate objects have wronged Tyrone Hurt. In just the last couple of years, Hurt has sued the Declaration of Independence, Black?s Law Dictionary, the United Nations, agencies of the District of Columbia and the Federal Government, and various courts and their officers. Hurt has claimed the existence of state supreme courts violates the Eighth Amendment, requested the Secret Service and the President?s Cabinet be declared unconstitutional, and demanded the deportation of a Spanish-speaking government employee...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).