Lots of people have been complaining about my analysis of George Mercier’s work, Invisible Contracts, that, from a lawyer’s viewpoint, was unmitigated legal garbage. Recently, some have been contending that he was a judge, clerk of some federal court, etc, and thus my criticism of him was unjustified. Frankly, I thought the man was nuts!!! To learn something about the guy, I decided to check with Pacer to see if he ever engaged in litigation. What I found was surprising.

Pacer is a federal website that connects a subscriber to the docket sheets for all federal cases, civil and criminal, across the country. Once on Pacer, you can pull up the docket sheet for any pending federal lawsuit, and obtain PDF images of the pleadings in the case, particularly those filed since the early part of this century. To try to find any suit filed by Mercier, I inserted his name in a search box on Pacer that would locate any case by a party of that name. The results of my query resulted in links to some 226 cases instituted by a George Mercier.

I pulled up the docket sheets for just a few of these cases, and from these, I was able to obtain copies of complaints filed by George Mercier. In these complaints, Mercier provides some information about himself and the parties he is suing. Please read:


Feel free to visit Pacer and read more complaints filed by Mercier. Frankly, after reading one of his first complaints about bombing Paris, I immediately concluded he was nuts. Draw whatever conclusion you want; I have drawn the conclusion that he is a pothead suffering from delusions.

Some believe that Mercier was either some judge or clerk of court. In simply checking on the Net for information about Mercier, I think I have found some relevant information. There is a George Mercier who is a prominent Rochester, New York businessman, who created the Mercier Literacy Program in 2002.  If you look on this website, you can see pictures of an elderly George Mercier. Invisible Contracts mentions that its author has New York connections. From some of the complaints I found on Pacer, I learned that son George Mercier sued his father George Mercier from New York. I put these facts together and have concluded that the author of Invisible Contracts is the son of the Rochester businessman, and the son likes to sue his dad. From reading just a few of these complaints (more than linked above), it is obvious to me that George Mercier, the son and author of Invisible Contracts, is a nut.

Here is a comment about Mercier from Bob Minarik:

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