Exit the Dragon - Sorry for being too badass for your honor

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/04/28/exit-the-dragon/

From Magistrate Judge Ray Kent's Order Striking Complaint today in Doe No. 2 v. Clinton County (W.D. Mich.):

Each page of plaintiff's complaint appears on an e-filing which is dominated by a large multi-colored cartoon dragon dressed in a suit, presumably because she is represented by the law firm of "Dragon Lawyers PC © Award Winning Lawyers". See Compl. (ECF No. 1). Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(f)(1) allows a court to "strike from a pleading an insufficient defense or any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter." Use of this dragon cartoon logo is not only distracting, it is juvenile and impertinent. The Court is not a cartoon. Accordingly,

IT IS ORDERED that plaintiff's complaint (ECF No. 1) is STRICKEN. Plaintiff is directed to file an amended complaint, containing the same allegations as the original complaint, without the cartoon dragon by no later than May 5, 2025.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiff shall not file any other documents with the cartoon dragon or other inappropriate content.

See for yourself:

 

[Pelican Bones]

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So you're using AI to do legal things for me?
Why can't I just cut you out of the middle and use an AI myself? It'd probably be as effective as you. Jesus Christ.
I can't tell who'd be a worse lawyer this guy or Rekieta.

Grok: "Put a dragon that shit. Judges love dragons."

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

Grok: "Put a dragon that shit. Judges love dragons."

An eagle or a lion would have been fine. This is anti scaly discrimination

 

[RatCake]

Idk man, I'd take degenerate druggies over furries anyday of the week.

To be fair, that degenerate druggie endangered the health and wellbeing of his kids. As far as I know, this furry hasn't done that yet so... I think I might take the furry over a certain has been lawyer in Minnesota.

 

[AnOminous]

So you're using AI to do legal things for me?

That may be outright illegal depending on what you're doing with it. I could see using it to jump-start research but this clown seems like the sort of idiot who would just copy paste shit from ChatGPT into a brief, including hallucinatory case citations.

I'm genuinely surprised to see the use of colored text and borders, much less full-page watermarks. Doesn't that kind of shit mess with courts' electronic filing systems (OCR, etc.)?

The worst I ever saw was a judge chewing a lawyer out because their brief was so badly stapled he cut his finger on it.

You can bet you're in for a bad time if your filing is so bad it literally physically injures someone.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Grok: "Put a dragon that shit. Judges love dragons."

I had to try and see what came up






Holy fuck I can't believe anyone uses AI for anything work related even photos. This guy is going to get disbarred.

To be fair, that degenerate druggie endangered the health and wellbeing of his kids. As far as I know, this furry hasn't done that yet so... I think I might take the furry over a certain has been lawyer in Minnesota.

You're stranded in the ocean on a boat with a druggy degenerate, and a furry degenerate, and a gun with only one bullet.
Shoot the boat and take your chances with the sharks.

 

[Justice Tony]

They hoard gold, but the jury is out on how this relates to lawyering.

Right, they're Jewish. Who doesn't love a Jewish lawyer?

 

[MichaelFrenchhasAutism]

He should re-file, but it's now the dragon's dick.

 

[Chromeo]

Knowing certain furries, we're all lucky the art wasn't the lawyer's fursona fucking a car.

 

[Namekian George Floyd]

Seto Kaiba would be so disappointed in all you dragon haters

 

[BradeRunna]

What if I wanted to dress up in dinosaur costume and fuck a chick that was also dressed as a dinosaur what would that be?

I know furfags call that yiffing.

Since dinosaurs aren't really reptiles would that still be considered scalies?

Let's say I wanted to dress up as rooster and bang a chick dressed as a hen what would that be?

Birds are in the same family as reptiles so would that be considered scales as well?

But they are also related to dinosaurs and dinosaurs aren't really reptiles or completely birds. More like an in between.

Is that feathers or scales?

 

[Smegward]

If you can't reach the man himself don't worry you can also contact one of his 4 stock image employees. about us page (A)

please don't tell me that's where the ai comes into play

 

[Outer Space Traveller]

This is essentially this meme (and the many variants thereof), only taking itself seriously:

How sad and pathetic will people be...

 

[Tablet County]

I don't want a lawyer who is a dragon, I want a lawyer who is like a dragon

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

This is so funny. Thanks for sharing OP. It’s even an order from the judge not just some clerk LOL.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Why would you even watermark a legal document in the first place? Isn't the whole point of a watermark to prove ownership/possession? Because as I understand it, lawyers are functionally work for hire, so the documents they produce are the clients property before filing, and are court property after being given to the court in the proceedings of the case - you can't take them back or try to restrict how they use them. Unless the Court has specific ruling or reason to seal the documents, they're generally put into public record by the court at that point.

 

[Google.com]

Btw he refilled without the watermark, the court also rejected the plaintiff using Jane Doe and needs to reveal her real name in 14 days.

He also stripped some but not all of the weird formatting. The purple font firm name is gone and the weird formatting for the county is gone, and the logo at the bottom right of each page along with the giant dragon is gone... He could not help himself to remove the red bolded "Now comes Plaintiff" or the purple page numbers though, mans gotta draw a limit somewhere.