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Samuel H. Sloan (b. September 7, 1944) in Richmond, Virginia. Sloan, who does not have any formal legal training, orally argued a case in front of all nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America and won, 9-0, in 1978 versus the Securities and Exchange Commission. An internationally known chess player and chess journalist, Sloan has traveled to nearly 80 countries of the world. Sloan is more notable, though, to many internet users for his website, which covers a wide range of topics and chronicles the most intimate details of his life.

Constantly engulfed in litigation (although a non-jurist, he represents himself in court and writes his own petitions, serves his own affidavits, etc), Sloan has sued large orginizations such as the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission, the United States Chess Federation and even President Richard Nixon. More notably, Sloan claims that his daughter was kidnapped by religious fanatics who were members of Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. The case Sloan presents, mainly with the aid of his massive website, is very complex and difficult to understand. The person in the center of this case is the child produced in a marriage between Sloan and a woman from the Chitral region of Pakistan. Sloan is a Muslim.

Biographical Information

Sloan, whose mother was a psychiatrist and whose father an IRS lawyer and auditor, grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia. He showed a talent for chess early in is life, playing in major tournaments before he reached his teens. He later went on to score a perfect score on his math SAT's and attended the University of California at Berkeley in 1962, majoring in mathematics. UC Berkeley was a hotbed for student protest during the social unrest of the 1960s, and Sloan became a major player on campus by becoming president of the Sexual Freedom League, an organization which was covered in Playboy and Time magazines and earned Sloan a spot on Joe Pyne's national televison talk show.

After leaving UC Berkeley, Sloan made a decent living trading stocks on Wall Street. Although the details are murky, the SEC decided that they had enough evidence to sue Sloan based upon information they had that indicated that he failed to maintain adequate books and records. These suits, which occured between 1971-1975, were civil actions. The SEC eventually took Sloan's broker license.

In April of 1978, Sloan was busy traveling the world. He drove his 1967 red Volkswagen Beatle into Afghanistan, after being warned numerous times not to do so. He was captured by Afghan authorities and accused of trying to recruit fighters for the mujahidin. Sloan was able to escape from prison and reach the US Embassy in Kabul.

Sloan later met and married a woman from a rural province in Pakistan. He took her to the United States where she gave birth to a little girl.

Criticism and Controversy

Sam Sloan has operated his various websites since the mid 1990s. Since then, he has accumulated over 3,000 pages of information of a wide range of topics. Sloan is often very frank online, sharing many personal details about himself. For example, many pages describing sexual acts have made Sloan the enemy of those who are offended by his freewheeling talk of his days in the Sexual Freedom League. He is also criticized for publishing, in great detail, his many exploits with women from his many visits to foreign countries.

Sloan is also well known in the world's chess circles, especially via his thousands of postings on Usenet groups such as rec.games.chess.politics. Sloan is an infamous figure for whom many in the world of chess claim to dislike. One of Sloan's most famous Usenet postings was concerning Hungarian chess grandmaster Péter Lékó. Sloan stated that Lékó had been killed in an automobile accident. However, it was later learned that the posting was based upon false information and that Lékó was asleep in his bed during the entire fiasco. Although Sloan claimed that he received bad information and apologized after learning of his error, many in the chess world state that they often do not trust the information Sloan posts on the internet.

Notable Court Case

• SEC vs. Samuel H. Sloan, 436 US 103 (1978)

Books

• Sex Marchers (with Jefferson Poland, eds., Elysium, Inc. 1968) ISBN 1881373053
• 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
• Sam Sloan at IMDb
• US Magistrate Judge Marilyn Go on Sloan: Factual Background
• 1960s & 1970s Counterculture Gallery(SFL/Kesey Project)

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