It was ten years ago today that Brett Kimberlin filed the Kimberlin v. National Bloggers Club, et al. lawsuit in federal court. After the complaint was amended, there were 24 defendants, and the case became known as the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness LOLsuit. I was one of the defendants from the beginning.

In fact, I was the first defendant that Kimberlin tried to serve. Ten years ago today, he personally handed me a copy of the complaint while I was sitting in the lobby of the Old Circuit Courthouse in Westminster waiting for a hearing related to the first peace order against Bill Schmalfeldt. Adverse parties can’t serve papers on each other, so the service was defective. I was sitting next to my lawyer. He could have handed it to her to hand to me, but …

Team Kimberlin has always maintained that requiring them to play the rules was a hypertechnicality.