Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Judge Altonaga orders plaintiff to “certif[y] the pleading has been reviewed and approved by a teacher of the English language — such certification is to be included in the notice of filing the second amended complaint.”

Judge Altonaga orders plaintiff to “certif[y] the pleading has been reviewed and approved by a teacher of the English language — such certification is to be included in the notice of filing the second amended complaint.” (See order here).

OOOOF!

From Judge Altonaga's order:

The Court notes Plaintiff’s proposed Second Amended Complaint is replete with grammatical errors, including improper punctuation, misspelling of words, incorrect conjugation of verbs, and lack of apostrophes when required for possessive adjectives; sentence fragments; and nonsensical sentences. The proposed Second Amended Complaint is also an eyesore, with its formatting errors and spaces.

This caught the eye of Above The Law, which first reported on Judge Altonaga's order here.

That blog reports that the case was voluntarily dismissed shortly thereafter.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"That blog reports that the case was voluntarily dismissed shortly thereafter." - A wise decision!

Anonymous said...

The judge makes a huge mistake/assumption. A "teacher of the English language?" Most English teachers in Miami cannot write a declarative sentence. This guy should be sanctioned after a hearing wherein he explains what drug he was on when he penned this grammatical atrocity.

Anonymous said...

Love all you elitists.

Anonymous said...

"conjugation of verbs"

I once conjugated with a verb, it did not end well for the verb.

Anonymous said...

These types of ruling really restrict access to the courts. Sad.

Anonymous said...

The offending author was a lawyer, not a pro se litigant. Nothing about this ruling restricts access to the court.