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Vexatious Litigant of the Decade?


— January 2, 2005

Judge�s handling of case under fire

“I will fight you forever,” typed retired Army pilot James MacFarlane in a bitter letter to his second wife, Beryl, mailed from his Portsmouth, N.H., home in April 1990.
Fourteen years and numerous lawsuits – going all the way to the New Hampshire Supreme Court – have followed, and MacFarlane is still fighting.

He�s still fighting legal decisions pertaining to his divorce from Beryl, dating back to the 1980s. He�s still fighting the legal professionals who represented him or ruled on his case, before he began representing himself.

And MacFarlane�s latest target is Rockingham County Superior Court Judge Kenneth McHugh.

Details — lots of them — are here from the Portsmouth Herald.


Judge�s handling of case under fire

“I will fight you forever,” typed retired Army pilot James MacFarlane in a bitter letter to his second wife, Beryl, mailed from his Portsmouth, N.H., home in April 1990.
Fourteen years and numerous lawsuits – going all the way to the New Hampshire Supreme Court – have followed, and MacFarlane is still fighting.

He�s still fighting legal decisions pertaining to his divorce from Beryl, dating back to the 1980s. He�s still fighting the legal professionals who represented him or ruled on his case, before he began representing himself.

And MacFarlane�s latest target is Rockingham County Superior Court Judge Kenneth McHugh.

Details — lots of them — are here from the Portsmouth Herald.

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