@ryogarocket.bsky.social I don't know if Maria's on here, but she (and probably you, too!) would find this amusing if you haven't seen it already bsky.app/profile/aryn...

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Is this how You've Got Mail came about? Because this sounds like You've Got Mail.

Now, if he wasn't a Martian, then they would accept the case but then still dismiss it as frivolous and a waste of the court's time.

In any case, there is now legal precedent in Ontario, Canada, that Martians cannot initiate lawsuits. /end

A "person" is legally defined as a human being, or a corporation. Since they were required to assume the plaintiff was a Martian, they said he didn't qualify as a "person" under the law to sue the Canadian government. /5

At the Appeals Court level, the Justice in the trial decided to dismiss the case due to lack of standing. You see, in order to commence a legal action in Ontario, you had to be a "person". /4

The government tried to have the case summarily dismissed as frivolous. But at the time if there were disputes about the facts of the case (like being a Martian), the plaintiffs "facts" were assumed to be true. This is no longer the case. /3

He claimed he was cloned from debris found by NASA in the 60s, but that his DNA tests to prove his martianhood had been falsified by the CIA. /2

A thread about how Martians can't initiate lawsuits in Ontario, Canada.

Back in 1999, there was a civil lawsuit in Ontario where a man sued the government, various institutions, and corporations for denying him the ability to live as a martian. /1

“I never see you at the club”

Yeah well I never see you at the local game store.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,800,480!