When one goes to the website for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, one is greeted with a pop-up window listing the "reasons most likely to get your pleadings stricken," complete with a list of things that will warrant the striking, and citations to the local rules that require them to be done. Anyone care to wager what might be the most common question fielded by that court's clerks?
Apropos of nothing, this is the same bench upon which sits the somewhat well-known federal District Judge Samuel B. Kent, who has gained a sort of notoriety for his opinions flambeeing attorneys who, in his opinion, aren't quite up to snuff. Read more about Judge Kent here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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