My first claim (I’m the defendant)is in small claims court and has been continued twice after the judge has ruled in my favor on 2 of the 5 counts (and I’m very confident in my defense of the remaining 3). Now, I’ve pissed the judge off today so I’m sure that I’ve sealed my fate with him as far as getting a favorable ruling on my counterclaim. So I’ll be dropping my $3,000 countersuit to avoid an adverse judgement that would require an appeal and preclude me from persuing it in my second law suit in a different venue.

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks because it was your web site that encouraged me to go pro se 5 months ago. Too bad (for me) that you no longer live in Missouri because I’d love to sit down with you and pick your brain for some ideas of how to change a specific unfair law.

Good luck and feel free to email me anytime!

Missouri courts suck don’t they? They’ve tied up my case for over a year now, because I’m pro se. So did you ever get your cases settled? I don’t see anything past 2000. Are your cases just hanging in limbo? Or did you just move on. I’m considereing burying the court with new decrees until my submitted decree is in “proper form”. Maybe one a week? Funny, I took the decree straight out of a Missouri proposed form law book in the court’s own law library, but somehow it’s not in proper form. I’d give you all the details but this is a case under court seal and when closed the whole case will be sealed along with the judgement decree I have to write because the judge won’t write it. What’s wrong with that picture? From reading Groklaw though it seems to be the norm, the lawyers write the decrees and the judge (or somebody) signs them. Maybe.

Nitin