Only a lawyer …
The BBC recently published this story about an action against God in the States being thrown out by the Judge.
The action was brought by the Nebraska State Governor for an injunction against God to prevent “death, destruction and terrorisation” by God. (I do know terrorisation isn’t a word but it’s an american case!). The concerning thing however has to be the ground that the case was thrown out by Judge Polk: “Given that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed …”.
Surely the case ought to have been thrown out for reasons other than that God doesn’t have an address to serve the papers and besides, if he’s truly omnipresent surely he’d have known anyway!
My thanks to Pete Doughty in Chambers for bringing this one to my attention and for anyone interested in employment law he’s just started a new employment law blog.