Pleading Archive
Lowering the Bar Presents:
Model Pleadings for Every Occasion
Each of the following pleadings has already been filed, somewhere, and so is in the public domain and may be used freely. NOTE: Lowering the Bar does not warrant 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 (graphics included)
- If Michael Jordan, your twin, has been ruining your life
Civil Procedure/Discovery
- Motion to Compel Opposing Counsel to Go to Lunch (order granting one, anyway)
- Motion to Fight Opposing Counsel
Motions to Continue
- 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
Appellate Practice
