Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers has filed a lawsuit against God. He says his intention is to make a point about frivolous lawsuits and illustrate how anyone can file a meritless case without serious consequences.

The lawsuit accuses God of "of making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent." The suit also seeks to hold God accountable for "calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction."

Among the catastrophes God is being accused of:

• fearsome floods
  
• egregious earthquakes
  
• horrendous hurricanes
  
• terrifying tornadoes
  
• pestilential plagues
  
• ferocious famines
  
• devastating droughts
  
• genocidal wars
  
• birth defects

Senator Chambers seeks an injunction against God and claims he can file the suit in the Douglas County since God is omnipresent. He says he's tried to contact God several times but has gotten no response.

I don't think the accusations of genocidal wars will hold up in court (we shoulder the blame for that one), but otherwise it seems like an open and shut case.

(On a serious note, Chambers' main objection is "that the constitution requires that the doors to the courthouse be open to all." While I can understand his frustration with frivolous lawsuits, I don't think the answer is to start categorically banning certain types suits.)