Suit Against State Bars Dismissed

A suit against the Oregon and Louisiana state bars has been dismissed by the United States District Court of the District of Columbia

Plaintiffs sue the Louisiana and Oregon State Bar and attempt to bring this matter as a qui tam action. They also attempt to bring this matter a class action. They allege that defendants have conspired and engaged in “organized crime,” in violation of multiple state, federal, and international laws, statutes, and treaties, due to their members’ alleged failures to advise “[t]housands of state prisoners” of their “right of [federal] removal for cause.” They demand an order directing defendants to

remit a listing of all trial attorneys, and defendants who were arraigned on criminal charges . . . within their jurisdiction between May 22, 1972, and January 1, 2019, with stipulations of notice of right to removal, right of removal on the face of the records; and with stipulations as to the due process of the right of/to remove; and remit a listing of all trial judges and prosecutors with waiver of right of removal waiver forms of colloquy transcripts where those criminal defendants waived their right to trial by jury in any United States District Court wherein the prosecution was State initiated.

The court found the plaintiffs could not maintain a qui tam or class action as pro se litigants representing themselves and that venue does not lie in D.C. (Mike Frisch)