The Prison Inmate Who’s Spent 40 Years Filing Hundreds of Lawsuits

Even the U.S. Supreme Court has tried to slow him down

Tim Gebhart
9 min readMar 29, 2022

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The official syllabus of the first of two U.S. Supreme Court orders restricting filings by John Demos

LLast year, I wrote about a man who filed more than 1,900 federal lawsuits between February 2006 and March 2016. While John Robert Demos, Jr., a Washington State Penitentiary inmate, has filed fewer lawsuits, all have come while in prison. Moreover, the U.S…

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Tim Gebhart

Retired Lawyer. Book Addict. History Buff. Lifelong South Dakotan. Blog: prairieprogressive.com