Winters v. MTL Systems, Inc.

RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ADVICE AND INSTRUCTIONS

MERZ, United States Magistrate Judge.

This case is before the Court on the Application of Notary Public Tina M. Shell for Advice and Instructions, filed January 7, 1999.

This Court was last confronted with a similar request in 1986 in Thompson v. Preble County, C-3-86-159. At that time I wrote:

I am aware of the practice of requesting advice on disputed questions is traditional with notaries in the Southern District of Ohio, but my research has not revealed any law on the subject. Presumably since notaries are empowered to punish for contempt under…