And God gets away with it once again....

[Boris Godunov]

Yeah, he could sue that chick from the Da Vinci Code, since she's the great-great-great-etc.-granddaughter of Jesus!

[Felch]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Dismissing the case because the defendant has no address is not a good reason. Even homeless people can be sued.

A valid reason would be that only people may be sued in a court of law. God is not a mere person but rather is a deity not subject to the jurisdiction of mundane courtrooms.

Three persons to be technical about it.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Felch


Three persons to be technical about it.

To be more techical: Zero persons.

The first person was Adam. You can't sue anyone around when Adam first showed up, because that someone is someone which is not a person.

[notyoueither]

You could sue the estate of J Christ.

There's some people running around agreeing they are his heirs as organisations are concerned. They have a few assets.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
But they would have to be judged first, and that would be the opportunity to slap the notice on God.

Except that any lawyer worth his salt would make a deal with God to save his soul. Lawyers are experts at soul-dealing.

[notyoueither]

You could make a movie out of that.

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by notyoueither
You could make a movie out of that.

I would hire a veteran scene stealing character actor to play the role of the devil.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Darius871
Why not just sue in one of the states where you can serve by publication? Then you could at least get a default judgment to collect against his representatives on earth, or maybe even his heirs. You just need the right lawyer.

That brings up an odd idea.

Suppose someone claims to be the representative someone who is not alive, whether they were ever alive or not. So suppose Bob claims to be the representative of Steve, but Steve is dead. Someone wins a lawsuit against Steve’s estate in absentia(without Steve at the trial).

Can I collect from Bob on behalf of Steve?

Simply being a representative is not enough, simply being a representative does not make someone liable for the others debts, so that relationship won’t cut it, but I am certain there is some relationship that will-what would that relationship be called?

Darius, under the right circumstances, I think that may actually be possible.

[snoopy369]

You collect from the legal estate ... you would have to prove that Bob had standing as Steve's estate. Since Jesus' estate has precisely $0.00 net value, you can't collect against it.

[Vesayen]

The vatican is the best target here. It has assets in U.S. banks that a U.S. court could go after.

I am trying to think of some way that the vatican voluntarily took on the debts of jesus, but I am coming up dry.

[Patroklos]

Simply being a representative is not enough, simply being a representative does not make someone liable for the others debts, so that relationship won’t cut it, but I am certain there is some relationship that will-what would that relationship be called?

Spouse.

The vatican is the best target here.

Not really. I got the impression that the suit was more over things like natural disasters (tornadoes, this is Nebraska). If the CEO of a company does something fraudulant, you don't collect from the company.

[snoopy369]

I'm fairly sure you can sue the company, actually (in addition to the CEO)...

[Patroklos]

I'm fairly sure you can sue the company, actually (in addition to the CEO)...

I guess it depends on what he did. If he were say, embezzeling funds, only the company (share holders) itself and the government would have standing to sue.

[Aeson]

Put a lien on tithes

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Patroklos


I guess it depends on what he did. If he were say, embezzeling funds, only the company (share holders) itself and the government would have standing to sue.

That's because they would only have standing to sue based on damage done. The shareholders != the company, by the way, companies are often sued by their shareholders based on their CEO's actions - even as a small-time investor I've received class-action settlements numerous times based on malfeasance by company directors. The money always came from the company itself, and not the director (who might have paid penalties, but not cash to me).