No, not the opening track of Imagine Dragons’ 2012  debut studio album Night Visions; rather this is the tale of Tax Court’s guardians irradiating incoming mail and nuking the petitioners’ signatures in Isaiah Paden Exline & Corey Exline, Docket No. 20438-15S, filed 9/15/15.

Ch. J Michael B. (“Iron Mike”) Thornton has this hot potato, which he first wanted to bounce for want of original signatures. But, as usual, he has the Clerk at the Glasshouse on Second Street, NW, send Isaiah a ratification form.

Now the SNOD here was sent both to Isaiah and Corey. And Isaiah and Corey sign up and send back timely.

But their ratification is apparently radioactive.

Here’s Ch. J Iron Mike: “On September 9, 2015, the Court received a document filed as a letter from petitioner. The document attached a Ratification of Petition and contained a request from petitioner that his wife be added to the case. Although the signatures on the ratification are barely visible because they were apparently obliterated in the irradiation process, careful inspection discerns signatures by both Isaiah Paden Exline and Corey Exline, dated August 28, 2015.” Order, at p. 1.

So both Isaiah and Corey are in at Tax Court, radioactive or not.

Practice tip—Make sure your signatures are in blue ink, and dig hard into the paper.