Seeking Greenlights: Yes
Page Type: SCP Article
Genre (Optional): Legal
Page Layout (Optional): Starts off as a PACER screen about a forfeiture in rem proceeding against SCP-XXXX's article. Offsets will be used to link the exhibit link to other iterations of the article.
Elevator Pitch: It's a pattern screamer what sues people.
Central Narrative: A single lawyer sues five million people a year; although he's impossible to find in person, thousands of people claim to know him. At first, the Foundation thinks it's a reality bender and outcompetes it by snapping up its profitable cases before it can sue, leaving only the unprofitable ones. This causes it to go underground and stop suing for a while. Then, having infiltrated Congress as a lobbyist, it manages to get Congress to accidentally give him unprecedented prosecutorial and judicial powers. The SCP, being nothing more than a conscious set of patterns, is limited only by his effectively self-imposed jurisdiction, and is not affected by things such as reality anchors, etc. However, it does obey the law unflinchingly, even though it now decides what the law is. This leaves the Foundation with only one course of action in an attempt to gather more data from it and possibly contain it, the one gap in its jurisdiction:
Hook/Attention-Grabber: It's a legal SCP that doesn't have a bunch of hand-wringing about contractual interpretation. It's an exploration of what the law actually is and does, and what judges could theoretically do if people wouldn't just ignore them. It's a depiction of a pattern screamer/invasive idea that isn't monolithically evil and homicidal. It never uses the postnominal 'esq.'.
