Legal Opinion
Hollister v. Soetoro
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 24, 2009No. Civil Action No. 2008-2254PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
JAMES ROBERTSON, District Judge.
We live in a free country. Our liberties are manifold and are the envy of the world. In the very top tier of those liberties, enshrined in the First Amendment, is “the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Many of those petitions are presented to judges. Every judge knows that a disturbingly high percentage of them involve petty slights, or imagined injuries, or matters that lie well beyond the reach of the judicial writ, but most judges will agree that it is important at least to listen to them —…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Carpenter v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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- Martin v. WilksSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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- Hugh Leroy Dunbar, Jr., A/K/A H. L. Dunbar v. United States of America, Defendants-Third Party J. Arthur Hawkesworth, Jr., Third PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Kerchner v. ObamaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2010
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- Hollister v. SoetoroCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2010
- Hollister v. SoetoroCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2010
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