A colleague sent me this: “Ya gotta love self-represented litigants. Every once in a while they give you some background on cases that you’d never get from lawyers.

Today’s reading:

In the memorandum to support default judgment, the self-represented Plaintiff/moving party explained that he’d have more sympathy for the lawyer who filed his answer late (the basis for Plaintiff seeking default) if that lawyer had not compared Plaintiff’s chance of prevailing to “Martians landing on the Earth tomorrow and taking over the planet.”