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no_hypocrisy

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5. Asking for "declaratory relief". That's interesting.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Oct 21, 2025, 09:09 PM

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I've used that cause of action once where an embezzler "misappropriated" $19,000+ from my client (an organization) and claimed it belonged to him. We were going to the court to do a King Solomon, i.e., to whom did the money legally belong. (We got it without going to court as the embezzler folded.)

As for Grijalva, I would have gone with Writ of Mandamus, the basis of the famous SC case Marbury v Madison.

I'm sure they'll get the same result.

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