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In reply to the discussion: PRESS RELEASE: Racketeering Romney Lawsuit Becomes Official November 6th [View all]onenote
(42,661 posts)While courts, including the court in which you filed, generally say that they will offer pro se litigants leeway in formulating a complaint, my experience is that courts really don't have a lot of patience with long, rambling complaints, which I think is an apt descripton of your complaint. It is a fact that such complaints get tossed out more often than they proceed to trial.
By short order, i did not mean to suggest that the court would throw out the complaint before a motion was filed, although the courts have such power if they choose to use it in circumstances where they feel it is an appropriate use of their inherent authority to manage cases.
In your case, I have no way of knowing whether the court has reviewed your complaint for anything more than its compliance with the minimal procedural standards applicable to pro se complaints. They may well have engaged in a preliminary screening to determine whether it meets the courts substantive pleading standards (e.g., does it provide sufficient notice to each defendant of the basis of the alleged liability and not rely on legal conclusions in lieu of factual allegations) and decided it should be allowed to proceed to the stage of service of process and answer/motion to dismiss. I would expect the defendants' to move to dismiss and, as I said, I wouldn't be surprised if the court, at that juncture, tosses the complaint. I think if you checked, you would find that the won/lost record of pro se litigants is not very good.
Please keep us informed as to the case's progress (i.e., if/when the complaints are served and what response(s) the defendants make,etc.).