Taliaferro v. Hoogs’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 55 state decisions

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1. ““(a) ‘Litigation’ means any civil action or proceeding, commenced, maintained or pending in any court of this State. “(b) ‘Vexatious litigant’ means any person: “(1) Who, in the immediately preceding seven-year period has commenced, prosecuted or maintained in propria persona at leas't five litigations other than in a small claims court that have been (i) finally determined adversely to him; or (ii) unjustifiably permitted to remain pending at least two years without having been brought to trial or hearing; or “(2) Who, after a litigation has been finally determined against him, repeatedly relitigates or attempts to relitigate, in propria persona, either (i) the validity of such determination against the same defendant or defendants as to whom the litigation was finally determined or (ii) the cause of action, claim, controversy, or any of the issues of fact or law, determined or concluded by such final determination against the same defendant or defendants as to whom the litigation was finally determined. “(c) ‘Security’ means cash, undertaking by a surety, or other security, of such nature and in such amount as may be fixed by the court, to assure payment, to the party for whose benefit such security is required to be furnished, of such party’s reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees and not limited to taxable costs, incurred in or in connection with a litigation instituted, caused to be instituted, or maintained or caused to be maintained by a vexatious litigant. “(d”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Muller v. Tanner

2. “Defendant” means a person (including a corporation, association, partnership, firm, or governmental entity) against whom litigation is brought or maintained, or sought to be brought or maintained. [[Image here]] "Litigation” means any civil action or proceeding, commenced, maintained, or pending in any state or federal court of record. “Plaintiff” means the person who commences, institutes or maintains litigation or causes it to be commenced, instituted, or maintained, including an attorney at law acting on the attorney’s own behalf. 12 . If the vexatious litigant does not have a pending matter before the court, the "presiding judge” would be the deputy chief judge of the civil or criminal division, as appropriate, of the court in which the litigant intends to commence the action. 13 . In forma pauperis is generally a "poor person (i.e. indigent)” who has been given permission to "proceed without liability for court fees or costs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ek v. Boggs

3. “Attorneys are governed by prescribed rules of ethics and professional conduct, and, as officers of the court, are subject to disbarment, suspension, and other disciplinary sanctions not applicable to litigants in propria persona.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 407 F. Supp. 2d 1115 - Doran v. Vicorp Restaurants, Inc.