- 12 - Petitioners’ Dismissal Efforts Motions To Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction On November 21, 2001, Dr. Trowbridge submitted “for the petitioners” a motion styled “Petitioner’s Verified Challenge to Jurisdiction of the Court”, which we filed in each case as a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. The motion “denies the existence of any contracts or commercial agreements which create an attachment of an equity relationship between the ‘United States’ and/or The State of Texas and Petitioner.” The motion also states: “Petitioner has specifically forfeited, waived, rejected, declined, and refused to voluntarily accept any and all benefits, especially admiralty and limited debt liability benefits, from the ‘United States’ and its instrumentalities.” Apparently on those bases, the motion then states: “Petitioner hereby gives formal notice to the Court of Petitioner’s status as a nonjuristic person, a Texas state Citizen, and that, in such status, Petitioner squarely challenges and voids the jurisdiction of this Court.” Petitioners claimed in the motion that we lack “in personam” jurisdiction and subject matter jurisdiction. We denied the motion. Motions To Dismiss On November 23, 2001, Dr. Trowbridge submitted (and Ms. Martin signed “in full agreement”) a motion styled “Petitioner’s Notice of Withdrawal of Petition”, which we filed in each case asPage: Previous 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Next
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