Each of the following pleadings has already been filed, somewhere, and so is in the public domain and may be used freely (subject to any copyright claims anybody might assert, which are probably bogus but still). NOTE: Lowering the Bar does not warrant or represent that use of any of these pleadings will get you anything other than sanctioned—although some of them have in fact worked.  Use at your own risk.

Complaints

• For discrimination in law-school grading based upon your poor typing skills

• If asserting a right to change places with the President of the United States

• If the defendants went ahead and cheated their neighbor, went ahead and cheated a friend

• If you need a hand-written divorce petition (hand-drawn graphics included)

• If Michael Jordan, your twin, has been ruining your life

• If you have an intellectual-property dispute with another manufacturer of iPhone fart applications

• If you have been spooked into falling off a deck by someone who negligently attempted to fire a bottle rocket out of his anus

Jurisdictional Issues

• Buddy Trahan’s Metaphorical Request for a Ride on the Streetcar Named Remand

Discovery/Trial Practice

• Motion to Compel Acceptance of Lunch Invitation (order granting same)

• Motion to Compel Opposing Counsel to Wear Appropriate Shoes

• Motion for a Fist Fight

Motions to Continue Hearing or Trial

• On the grounds that deer season is about to begin

• On the grounds that your dog just had puppies

• On the grounds that LSU will be playing for the national championship that day

• On the grounds that the Saints are in the playoffs

Appellate Practice

• Amicus curiae brief on copyright protection for the Klingon language