Sam Sloan
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Samuel Howard Sloan (b. September 7, 1944), also known as M. Ismail Sloan, while having no formal legal training, orally argued a case in front of the Supreme Court of the United States of America and won, 9-0. The case was [SEC v. Samuel H. Sloan], 436 US 103 (1978).
He has been married five times and has eight children. He now drives a taxicab in New York City and is involved in organizing chess tournaments.
Biographical highlights
Sloan attended the University of California at Berkeley which was a center for student protest during the social unrest of the 1960s. Sloan became the president of the Sexual Freedom League.
After leaving UC Berkeley, Sloan made a living trading stocks on Wall Street. The SEC brought civil actions against Sloan in 1971-1975 alleging he had failed to maintain adequate books and records. In 1975, the SEC revoked Sloan's brokerage license. After years of litigation, Sloan in 1978 prevailed in the U.S. Supreme Court. Sloan argued the case pro se (for himself) even though he was not an attorney. The opposing attorney was Harvey Pitt, who was later Chairman of the SEC from 2001 to 2003. Sloan won before the U.S. Supreme Court 9-0. Sloan is the last non-lawyer to argue before the court.[Building a Better Advocate], Tony Mauro, The American Lawyer, 10-11-2002.
Sloan has written a book about the dialects of the Khowar-speaking regions of Pakistan. He writes that his first wife was a native of that region and their only child together, a girl, was named Shamema.
In 1986, Sloan fled the USA with Shamema and established a new home in the United Arab Emirates. In 1990, while he was away on business, Shamema was returned to the USA in a manner that was deemed a kidnapping by the UAE. He lost his custody rights to his daughter and, after a visitation incident in 1991, was convicted in 1993 in Virginia of attempting to abduct her. (Lynchburg Circuit - Criminal - CR91003195-00; total of 10 case numbers).
Chess
Sloan is an high-end Class A chess player and chess journalist. He claims to have traveled to nearly 80 countries, primarily attending chess tournaments. Sloan finished second among non-Chinese participants in the World Championship of Chinese chess [link]. Sloan writes that he also competed in Thai (Makrook) and Japanese (Shogi) chess. Sloan has made thousands of postings on Usenet groups such as rec.games.chess.politics. He also cross posts these messages to non-chess-related newsgroups, though he has been repeatedly asked to stop.
Recent activities
Sam Sloan has operated his website since the mid-1990s, posting over 3,000 pages of information and opinion on a wide range of topics, including court transcripts that Sloan has himself transcribed into web pages for the many other cases that he has initiated and attempted to argue pro se.
In an April 30, 2006 email to Michael Badnarik's 2004 Presidential campaign mailing list, an individual claiming to be Sloan announced his intention to seek the Libertarian Party nomination for governor of New York State.
Notable court case
References
Books
- Sex Marchers (with Jefferson Poland, eds., Elysium, Inc. 1968) ISBN 0923891137
- Khowar English Dictionary (as Mohammad Ismail Sloan, 1981) (published in Pakistan)
- Chinese Chess for Beginners (1989) ISBN 0923891110
- How to Take over an American Public Company (1992) ISBN 1881373010
- The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson (1992) ISBN 4906574009
External links
- [Sam Sloan]
- [US Magistrate Judge Marilyn Go on Sloan: Factual Background]
- [US Tournament record for Sam Sloan]
- [The Chess Games of Sam Sloan]
- [The Man in the Yellow Cab: Sam Sloan]
- [Sam Sloan for Governor on Google Video]
- [Virginia Circuit case information]
- [Chessbase News article mentioning Sloan's background]
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