Can you force the Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit by including all other judges as defendants?
<p><a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/83663/what-would-happen-if-someone-sued-every-judge-in-the-country/83701#83701">If all judges with jurisdiction over a case have a conflict of interest, they do not have to recuse themselves.</a> <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/83671/can-a-lawsuit-naming-multiple-defendants-be-partially-dismissed/83678#83678">If a lawsuit is filed against several people, it can be dismissed partially, with only relevant individuals included.</a> In theory, could someone force the Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit by naming every other judge in the country as defendants, along with the actual defendant, causing all judges except SCOTUS justices to have a conflict of interest?</p>
<p>If one of the parties demanded a jury trial, how would that work? Can there be a jury SCOTUS trial?</p>

<p>Unless you are an ambassador or one of the US states, SCOTUS doesn't have <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii" rel="nofollow noreferrer">original jurisdiction</a> over your lawsuit, so they can't hear it either.</p>
<p>If you've named all the judges of all the courts that do have jurisdiction, then one of them will handle it anyway, under the doctrine of necessity noted before.</p>
<p>For cases that do fall within the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction, a jury trial is theoretically possible, but it appears it has not occurred since the 1790s, and only one has surviving records: <em>Georgia v. Brailsford</em> in 1794.  See <a href="https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/special-juries-in-the-supreme-court" rel="nofollow noreferrer">&quot;Special Juries in the Supreme Court&quot; by Lochlan F. Shelfer, <em>Yale Law Journal</em> 123:1, 2013-2014</a>.  Otherwise, non-jury original jurisdiction cases are usually delegated to a <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/SpecMastRpt/SpecMastRpt.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">special master</a>, a sort of &quot;contract judge&quot; who hears all the evidence and recommends a judgment that the full court typically rubber-stamps.</p>

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