I’m reluctant, not because of any criticism from the reader (Bob Kamman, Esq.), but because he has raised, in a comment to a very old post, a point that I have beaten to what I supposed was death a long time ago. You can find his comment, and my reply, at my blogpost “Statute of Limitations? Maybe Not,” 12/28/10.  That’s only about sixteen (count ’em, sixteen) years ago. 

The case is Estate of Arthur I. Appleton, Deceased, Linda Potter, Executor, Docket No. 15121-12, filed 9/10/26. Ch J Patrick J. (“Scholar Pat”) Urda orders either a stip of settlement or a status report 90 days out.

Mr. Kamman points out that this is status report number 28; I count 34, but it really doesn’t matter.

Can any reader point me to another court where cases hang around for decades with no end in sight? I mean, besides Jarndyce v. Jarndyce.

Way back in 2010, Judge Julian I. Jacobs (now long since retired) stated in a companion case “that the interest of the taxpayer in a speedy resolution outweighs the specific governmental interest of the Virgin Islands Bureau of Internal Revenue in orderly tax administration of the USVI.”

Yeah, roger that, most affirmative.