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Research batch 16
Batch 16.
Batch 16 (7 Oct 2026) tests two of the revised-method corrections. The reverse sequence (start from known complainants) run on US protest activists returned no psychiatric instrument at all — a pattern finding in itself — and one Russian case missing from the register. The "litigious as symptom" archival question, run on US courts, returned a live mechanism the record had not yet named: civil-court competency inquiries under Rule 17(c) and vexatious-litigant orders, including one initiated by the opposing party.
consolidated record; no separate original batch file supplied. The full source retains additional narrative, method, bibliography and correction sections.
Read the full source record →Mikhail Kosenko’s protest case and compulsory treatment
Moscow, May 2012 protest; trial 2013
Mikhail Kosenko, a Bolotnaya Square defendant with a 12-year outpatient history, had his case severed from the others because investigators sought compulsory psychiatric treatment; a Soviet-era dissident testified he had not fought police; Memorial's Orlov called it a…
Read the recordRichards: the opposing party raised competency
US, 3d Cir. (non-precedential, 2005)
A pro se attorney-plaintiff; the defendant university "suggested the District Court consider" her competency; the magistrate judge ordered a psychiatrist to address it and appointed a guardian, stripping her of control of her own case; the Third Circuit took…
Read the recordJames: an incapacity ruling could not end the case that way
US, 2d Cir. 2011
District court dismissed a pro se complaint with prejudice solely because the plaintiff had been adjudicated incapacitated in state court in 2003 and her guardians did not respond; her filings alleged a guardian held a financial interest adverse to hers; the Second…
Read the recordRepeated motions, a capacity petition, and a vexatious-litigant order
Montgomery County, Maryland; Court of Special Appeals unreported 0037s20
In a guardianship case the county health department petitioned for evaluation of the appellant's mental capacity; the court recounted her "numerous frivolous, stream-of-consciousness pleadings," eight pro se motions, declared her a vexatious litigant, enjoined further…
Read the recordPowell: a competency inquiry as a procedural safeguard
US, 3d Cir. 2012
A prisoner's psychiatric report put the district court on notice of possible incompetence; the court abused its discretion by not inquiring; reversed
Read the recordDubrule: an unusual defense does not establish incompetence
US, 6th Cir. 2016
"The mere fact that a pro se litigant espouses a far-fetched, or even bizarre, legal-defense theory is insufficient to clear the high hurdle for incompetency"
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