...a "sovereign citizen" and therefore can't lawfully be taxed by Indiana or its subdivisions in the absence of a contract between them and him. (See El v. AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc...MSTA home office, located in Washington D.C., has issued a statement clarifying that the organization is neither "a Sovereign Citizen movement [n]or a Tax Protestor Movement" and that it was not founded.../Statement_Radical_Moors.pdf. A MSTA temple in Georgia denounces sovereign-citizen propaganda as "completely asinine" and asks that Moors not "adopt[ ] the ideals of these European groups who at their core...

.... White has filed a motion to dismiss this case for lack of jurisdiction because he is “a sovereign citizen.” (DE 58.) Attached to this motion is an affidavit in which Mr. White opines that he...motion. (DE 66.) Mr. White then filed a reply in which he reiterates his claim that he is a sovereign citizen. (DE 68.) Mr. White's argument that he is a sovereign citizen not bound.... . . theories of individual sovereignty, immunity from prosecution, and their ilk” and that such “theories should be rejected summarily, however they are presented”). Claims of “sovereign citizen” status have...

...argument is the spawn of sovereign citizen legal theories. See Bey v. State, 847 F.3d 559 (7th Cir. 2017) (explaining the origins of...the movement). Mr. Barber's preposterous argument is an abuse of the courts. This sovereign citizen theory has no basis in the law, and parties that make it are in danger of court...sanctions. To our knowledge, no court in this country has ever found sovereign citizen arguments to have any merit. See United States v...

.... Phillips, 326 F. App'x 400 (7th Cir. 2009) (noting that district courts have jurisdiction over defendants brought on charges of violations of federal law and rejecting "sovereign citizen" arguments...of Habeas Corpus" pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2242. Again, Petitioner made frivolous "sovereign citizen" claims.... Again, the Court denied Petitioner's claims. Additionally, the Court warned Petitioner that making future "sovereign citizen" claims would result in the type of sanctions imposed by...

...as the 'sovereign citizen' movement," and that claims of lack of subject matter jurisdiction by sovereign citizens are "wholly insubstantial and frivolous." In addition, the district...Henry's complaint without prejudice as frivolous. On appeal, though disclaiming any assertion that he is a "sovereign citizen," Henry largely advances the same arguments he made in the...) (citing United States v. Benabe, 654 F.3d 753, 767 (7th Cir. 2011) (rejecting defendants' sovereign-citizen based arguments that they were beyond the court's jurisdiction...

...prejudice for failure to comply with court orders and because plaintiff has filed various documents that appear to be based on frivolous "sovereign citizen" theories...dismissal for failure to comply with court orders. The court declines to dismiss on the basis of plaintiff's filing of various frivolous sovereign citizen documents in the... record, because the court does not see any sovereign citizen language in the second amended complaint. Contra Richard v. Embrace Home Loans, Inc., No. 2:26-cv-55-ECM-JTA...

.... & Religion 70, 72-75 (2016). The MSTA home office, located in Washington D.C., has issued a statement clarifying that the organization is neither "a Sovereign Citizen movement [n]or...Groups (July 15, 2011), http://msta1913.org/Statement_Radical_Moors.pdf. A MSTA temple in Georgia denounces sovereign-citizen propaganda as "completely asinine" and asks that Moors not "adopt...), moorishsciencetemple.org/faqs/. But clearly, sovereign-citizen ideas appeal to many [self-described] Moors, who combine those ideas with Ali's teachings in an effort to reclaim and rewrite black history...

..., arguing that the superior court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgment against him in his underlying criminal case because he was a Native Alaskan sovereign citizen. Superior Court Judge William B...court lacked jurisdiction over his underlying criminal case. Bourdon asserts that he is a “sovereign citizen” and that, absent his consent, the State of Alaska has no power to enforce its criminal laws..., “ The Usurping Octopus of Jurisdictional Authority”: The Legal Theories of the Sovereign Citizen Movement, 1999 Wis. L. Rev. 785 (1999) (explaining the historical background of the various sovereign...

...[*] Plaintiff-Appellant Desmond L. Askew filed a complaint against the State of Texas and the United States, seeking a declaratory judgment that he is a sovereign citizen-and therefore...the so-called "sovereign citizen movement," is frivolous and entirely without merit. See 5TH CIR. R. 42.2...; see also Watson v. Texas State Univ., 829 Fed.Appx. 686 (5th Cir. 2020) (dismissing complaint relying on "meritless legal theories associated with the sovereign citizen movement...

...proceed in forma pauperis. The Court denied the application after holding the case is frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) because the Complaint, ECF No. 1-2, is premised on "sovereign citizen" type...claims that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has repeatedly rejected. Plaintiff argues the Complaint asserts valid claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and does not rely on "sovereign citizen" type...proclaiming to be a sovereign citizen," and that she appeared before the Lee's Summit municipal court "as a private beneficiary, authorized the Judge as Trustee to settle all debts." Compl. at 1, 4-5. This...

..."redemptionist" and "sovereign citizen" theories that have been rejected repeatedly by the courts as frivolous and a waste of court resources. See, e.g., United States v.... Benabe, 654 F.3d 753, 767 (7th Cir. 2011) (stating that sovereign citizen-type theories should be "rejected summarily"); Monroe v.... Beard, 536 F.3d 198, 203 n. 4 (3d Cir. 2008) (explaining sovereign citizen theory of the "strawman"); Charlotte v...

...against Defendants. Dkt. 1, Ex. 3 at 10-18. Mason alleges that Defendants (1) infringed upon his purported rights as a sovereign citizen, (2) are involved in a conspiracy in violation of the federal...support of this motion, Defendants argue that (1) Mason's sovereign citizen claims are frivolous and have never been accepted by a court; (2) Mason's R.I.C.O. claims are frivolous and not supported by... Although Mason's complaint primarily focuses on his sovereign citizen and R.I.C.O. claims, he also mentions an alleged use of excessive force incident and alludes to an equal...

...are replete with legal-sounding but meaningless verbiage commonly used by adherents to the so-called sovereign citizen movement.” Sealey v. Branch Banking and Tr. Co., No. 2:17cv785-MHT-SMD..., 2018 WL 1251920, n.1 (N.D. Fla. Mar. 12, 2018) (while plaintiff did not expressly identify as a sovereign citizen, his filing bore the hallmarks of a sovereign citizen theory). And...courts routinely, summarily, and firmly reject sovereign citizen legal theories as “frivolous.” United States v. Sterling, 738 F.3d 228, 233...

...argument presented in his brief is that the District Court lacked jurisdiction. The inferior federal courts, appellant asserts, have no "civil jurisdiction over a sovereign citizen." Brief for...

...unintelligible, bears all the hallmarks of what has come to be known as a "sovereign citizen" pleading. The Eleventh Circuit has explained that "sovereign citizens" are those "who believe they are not subject...rejected their legal theories as frivolous." Id. (citing United States v. Benabe, 654 F.3d 753, 761-67 (7th Cir. 2011) (collecting sovereign citizen claims and characterizing them as...himself as a "sovereign citizen," he clearly was advancing a common sovereign citizen theory that Public Law 73-10 and the various cited provisions of the UCC "somehow allow him to satisfy his debt to...

..., violated his rights because Defendants lack jurisdiction and authority over him because he is a "sovereign citizen" who is entitled to "sovereign immunity" from their disciplinary actions. For the...manner that they did because he is a "sovereign citizen" with "sovereign immunity" from their jurisdiction and authority. See, e.g., id. (concluding that Defendants have no...jurisdiction "to impose sanctions on a Sovereign Citizen asserting Sovereign Immunity"); Doc. 9 at 7 (concluding "Sovereign Immunity is asserted throughout this case [and] the defendants don't have...

.... For the reasons set forth below, Petitioner's Request for Writ (Doc. 1) is denied and Petitioner is warned that the filing of future habeas petitions asserting similar "sovereign citizen" arguments...brought on charges of violations of federal law and rejecting "sovereign citizen" arguments as frivolous)). On September 15, 2016, less than a month after the court rejected...government could have jurisdiction. Id. This type of argument is frequently known as a "sovereign citizen" argument...

...an attempt to file baseless and/or fraudulent documents based largely on the "sovereign citizen" or some related theory, which has been consistently rejected by federal courts. See, e.g...., United States v. Hardin, 489 Fed. Appx. 984 (8th Cir. 2012) (upholding conviction of "sovereign citizen" on multiple counts of producing.... Schneider, 910 F.2d 1569, 1570 (7th Cir. 1990) (describing defendant's proposed "sovereign citizen" defense as having "no conceivable validity in American law") and...

.... Plaintiff has filed objections to Judge Bryant's R&R, subscribing to what is commonly known as “sovereign citizen” ideology-despite her protests otherwise...that claims and arguments based on sovereign citizen ideology are inherently frivolous and are a waste of judicial resources.... See United States v. Jagim, 978 F.2d 1032, 1036 (8th Cir. 1992) (Ruling that sovereign citizen claims in the case were without merits, patently...

...those cases. This is wholly improper. Her "sovereign citizen"1filings are frivolous. See, e.g., Henry v. Hernandez-Rundle... 773 F. App'x 596, 597 (11th Cir. 2019) (finding that sovereign citizen "claims have no arguable legal basis and are patently frivolous"); Pettingell v. Rolle..., No. 1:26cv49-TKW-HTC, 2026 WL 1067390, at *1 (N.D. Fla. Mar. 20, 2026) ("The 'sovereign citizen' argument challenging the Court's jurisdiction has been universally rejected as frivolous."), report...