How United States courts were designed to produce justice, why they frequently fail in recent years, and what we as a society can do to restore a reasonable expectation of receiving justice through our courts again.
Throughout our nation, unscrupulous law firms are using predatory tactics currently with the complicity of their “friends” and bad actors in local government, while leveraging the power of the courts, to bully, coerce, extort, silence, retaliate, rob, manipulate, control, and deprive honest lawful families of their hard earned wealth, property, inheritances, independence, family members, freedom, social standing, professional accomplishments, peaceful enjoyment and happiness―litigiously terrorizing them under the fraudulent “color of law”, though absolutely repugnant to the rule of law, the court’s codes of conduct, and both our state and federal constitutions.
How can this happen? A simple deviation which has gone unchecked, in how our courts were designed to work to produce justice.
How can litigants determine if the officers of the court are involved in “predatory litigation” on a case by case basis?
Actually, it is pretty easy once you understand their tactics. First of all, ask yourself this question: “are the officers of the court adhering to the court’s codes of conduct?” (Conduct reveals motive.)
When an attorney violates the rules of professional conduct, does the judge correct them, to maintain an impartial tribunal (atmosphere) where the truth is welcome, can honestly be heard, impartially considered, differentiated, and justly decided?
If not, the judge is likely showing bias against you (judicial bias renders the court’s orders null and void), by allowing the attorneys to commit misconduct without correcting them (which is one of the judge’s required duties). This is a clear violation of your constitutional rights to equal and due process by an impartial tribunal. The court has no lawful authority to operate without fully respecting your rights and treating you equally.
There can be no reasonable expectation that any court process would, could, might, or will produce justice short of strict adherence to the courts rules of conduct. That is how the judicial system was designed to work. There is no plan ‘B’. Either the process was administered honestly, impartially, and with justice as the reasonable goal, or it was done with bias, without equal and due process by an impartial tribunal and as a matter of law must be vacated for being void.
Somehow court’s have become unreasonably ambivalent about whether or not the officers of the court strictly adhere to the court’s rules of conduct, while instead demanding strict adherence to other court rules and procedures of practice, which fail to address the merits of a case, but rather a litigants adherence to the process.
Process without good conduct can produce some of the worst crimes against humanity. No process should be rewarded absent good, honest, honorable, and just conduct.
Powerful criminals who have mastered the art of court process, who have friends in high-places throughout local courts, government, social and political circles, who are willing to either participate in crimes, under the fraudulent “color of law” against disadvantaged litigants or whomever has become the “mark of the day”, or turn their heads and refuse to intervene to help the obviously injured parties or report both judicial and attorney misconduct as is required of every “officer of the court” by the rules of both judicial and professional conduct, have become the social parasites who are destroying our judiciary from the inside out.
Those complicit in elevating process over conduct, to leverage the power of our courts and government as a weapon forged against honest, lawful citizens, to unlawfully deprive them of their constitutional rights in this great nation, must be called out, exposed, challenged, and held accountable, lest any reasonable hope and expectation of justice being within the reach of common people in this nation through our courts be lost forever.
There is no honest lawful jurisdiction, authority, or power in the State of Tennessee and their judicial system for the prestigious officers of the court to act as they obviously have toward me and my family throughout this case. Still the State of Tennessee has shown no care or concern for me and my family, nor has it shown any interest or even willingness to investigate my claims, research my case, and discover whether or not the powerful actors involved honestly committed the crimes I have claimed. The state should be concerned that if my claims are true, about the public safety and health of many other family’s throughout middle Tennessee.
My case is not the most significant, but it may prove more clearly than most that some of the named judges, attorneys, clerks, and court oversight administrators involved in my case, have obviously violated their oaths of office, and clearly can’t be trusted to operate honestly, impartially, in the best interests of the public, at any cost.
That’s important. Especially if the state really cares about protecting public health and safety. I know of few factors more critical than whether those working for the Tennessee Supreme Court, trusted with the oversight of the practice of law throughout the state, are acting honestly, or are instead protecting some of the worst actors in the state of Tennessee, as my case proves.
In my case, the officials involved, haven’t demonstrated any interest or care about the truth, protecting the public, what honestly transpired, or justice, while spending tax dollars to hire attorneys to fight me and deny my family justice (not based upon the merits, but based upon process and technicalities), without ever investing a dollar to investigate the voracity of my claims, to hold the bad actors accountable, to protect the public from further misconduct by those parties (as has caused significant harm in Williamson County Tennessee), to assist me and my family in obtaining justice, and/or surviving the harsh, punitive, unreasonably unlawful, “default” judgments ordered against me in bad faith by defendant Binkley, after I told the courts and oversight divisions about the fraudulent bias and misconduct between defendants Binkley and Story, which they reasonably should have expected based upon their known and publicly exposed history of outrageous misconduct.
Yet every system of the state which has been within my reach has been used to hold me down rather than to help me up or protect me and my family. That’s neither reasonable nor acceptable and shows the heart and motives of those in leadership in Tennessee state government.
The people can’t constitutionally be forced to submit to and participate in an arbitrary system of lawless deprivation of their rights and property, without equal and due process of law, by an impartial tribunal. Yet that is exactly what is happening in Williamson County Chancery Court and throughout many “family courts” around our country. The courts must lawfully require that the officers of the court operate in good faith and good conduct, while using our courts to do substantial justice, for the lawful purposes constitutionally mandated and socially expected. Outside of which our courts have no lawful jurisdiction, authority, role, or power.
The burden of proof needs to be returned to the court and to the officers of the court therein, to prove whenever called into question, that they reasonably operated honestly, lawfully, in pursuit of substantial justice, while maintaining strict adherence to the codes of conduct at all times.
At anytime, when a litigant can reasonably demonstrate that a court substantially failed in that core responsibility (especially in civil matters which are often denied due process) for exercising jurisdiction, authority, and power over any matter or litigant, the court should be proactive about reviewing that case and quickly vacate any judgments which were procured subsequent to misconduct, or where good professional conduct or judicial conduct was obviously lacking.
For those who claim that the government or the courts can not afford to give all litigants equal access to justice, or guarantee the results of each judicial proceeding to such a degree of liability and proactive responsibility, I exhort this: If a state lacks the resources to ensure that it is not depriving citizen of their property or rights unlawfully, then the state lacks the jurisdiction and authority to deprive those citizens of their property or rights.
The burden of proof must rest upon those who seek to take from others. Whether a claimant, a company, a creditor, a court, a state, or anyone else. A citizen must be left whole, unmolested, and undeprived, except as can be lawfully justified, substantiated, and proven beyond any reasonable doubt. Subject to honest and lawful scrutiny both at the time of taking, and at any time thereafter, especially when justice failed to meet the appearance of justice in the first place.
Any litigant, claimant, company, creditor, court, state, which finds such liability and responsibility for operating honestly, legally, in good faith, with good conduct, “overbearing”, might best be served (to the substantial benefit of society at large) by removing themselves from the business of taking from others, and/or limiting such practice to only the extreme cases, which truly justifies both the due diligence and the risk which should have always closely accompanied leveraging the courts to take from others.
Sometimes the right answer just makes sense.
I’ve begun documenting some of the playbook tactics of predatory litigation, as learned by the actions and criminal misconduct of Attorney Virginia Lee Story at Williamson County Tennessee in a blog post titled Predatory Litigation―101, which is available at TNInjustice.org.
I expect that this will become my life’s work, for the decades to follow. Educating the public about predatory litigation, while working with victims, interested legal professionals, judicial ethics and court reform advocates, interested government entities, and community activists nationwide.
Focused on demanding honest and ethical professional and judicial conduct by those operating within our courts, with a commitment to increasing transparency and accountability at all levels, along with robust and meaningful rescue systems within the realistic reach of most litigants, providing some sort of “safety net” to protect litigants from unlawful court orders, before their lives suffer catastrophic and unrecoverable losses, such as I have experienced.
If the states invested a tiny bit more to ensure that power was executed fairly, lawfully, in good faith, with good conduct, it would save both the state and the people a fortune financially in the long run. It would likewise restore the public’s faith in our judiciary, which is near an all-time low currently, for just cause.
It would improve the general moral and mental health throughout society, while physically saving the lives of untold numbers of good and lawful citizens who are driven over the edge, who currently give up on life, become homeless, commit suicide, or turn to a life of crime after learning that the law failed to protect them and their family, from the arbitrary, absurd, and senseless loss of much of what made their lives enjoyable, cherished, and worth living.
It’s pretty bad when a group of bad actors commit so many crimes against someone that while forcing them to literally fight for their lives, just to survive the cruel, criminal, and inhumane actions and orders by the courts and the counsel, they are forced to confront facts, circumstances, and conditions so raw, ugly, and painful, but real and highly-relevant, which no law could ever condone and no school would ever teach, but in that process I learned enough truth about how our system is broken currently, and how it is strategically being exploited by powerful bad actors for the express purpose of committing crimes against the public, to arm me with enough CONTENT to last the rest of my life. Yet that is honestly what has happened.
The lawless cruelty and deprivation of my rights and property, which propelled me to learn the truth which I now know more clearly and deeply than most (while being able to prove it beyond any reasonable margin of error), has become my responsibility to steward, protect, and honestly share with the public, courts, and government for the express purpose of bettering society, for the benefit of the public, lest my losses all be for nothing.
I compare my responsibility in this matter to that of a witness of a fatal car accident. I bear the responsibility of testifying to the truth of what I have witnessed at the hands of these misfits of misconduct. This is my life’s mission now.
I know of no greater contribution, critically needed, yet within my reach, that I might realistically make to our nation, throughout the remainder of my lifetime.
That which I have learned I have seen proven repeatedly, in countless different lives, in a multitude of very different yet similar cases, in different courts throughout our nation and even globally. I’ve learned to recognize a set of repeating patterns, used by bad actors across the board, over and over. For the express purpose of interjecting themselves or their associates into the lives, finances, and legal affairs of families, while manipulating and exacerbating any family conflict, interjecting a litany of lies and fraudulent claims, intensifying any division in the family, pivoting the parties against each other, sowing in dishonesty, deceit, and discord, while adding fuel to any fire. To preset the stage for the judge and court to come in hot and heavy-handed, to seemingly justify exceeding their lawful jurisdiction and authority, under the false pretense of providing some critically needed protection to some party or interest which has been fraudulently prepared and presented by counsel to be in desperate need of a serious intervention by the court.
In my experience, at this hour, this is one of the greatest threats, to the life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness of every family in our nation, which most people aren’t even aware is a realistic threat at all.
Not to mention how quickly a family can literally be destroyed, once captured as a mark by a powerful group of bad actors, involved in predatory litigation. Typically these operations are run by powerful and influential attorneys and/or judges who have deep roots in a particular geographic region, where they are often protected by an extensive network of powerful family and friends employed throughout the local court system and the surrounding county/state government.
Sometimes it can be next to impossible to find anyone who is willing to honestly stand-up against these powerful people, to question their testimony, actions, motives, logic, orders, or to hold them accountable to act in accordance with the rule of law.
That sounds absurd, yet in “their courts”, the reasonable expectation of all involved, is that what they say, claim, and demand will be written as if truth, fact, and reasonably lawful in the court’s records, regardless of whether that is honestly true, or any of it would stand-up to truly impartial oversight, scrutiny, or cross-examination, as the court records in my case repeatedly proves.
Attorneys often understand how relationships between certain judges and other attorneys compromise their odds and ability to fight for what is true, honest, and just, while adjusting their expectations accordingly. Unfortunately they are often unable and unwilling to disclose this information to the public or their client.
There is a lot more to this, including multiple levels of protection for bad actors, but the reality is once your life has been targeted and destroyed by one of these unofficial organizations or significant power-players, it can be almost impossible, if not impossible to obtain lawful protection for yourself and your family, or to obtain a just cure/remedy within that same social/political/geographic region.
The loss of a persons long-established geographic region of domicile, can further destroy a persons sense of identity, value, independence, security, happiness, and purpose. Unfortunately for some, at the most vulnerable time in their life, while concurrently suffering unjustifiable, obscene, and often catastrophic and irreparable damages in many, if not most, meaningful areas of their life by the bad actors.
It is difficult to weigh and express the value which having decades of personal and professional relationships in a specific geographic region of your choosing has upon your life and your ability to recover from a catastrophic loss. Having long established health care providers who you know, who know you, your body, your character, and your history. Who both trust you and you trust, while knowing they are within a twenty minute drive, will always squeeze you in during any emergency, while the cost of their services are covered by your insurance, hence they are readily available and within your reach to meet any healthcare need that arises. There is a significant sense of security in that.
This is even more true and critical when it comes to long established mental healthcare providers, psychiatrists, therapists, and support groups who you trust and trust you, while having mutually respecting, deep, meaningful, highly valuable interactions, with best in class experts, specific to your disabilities, who know you, your history and have journeyed with you.
The mental health relationships and support system which I had established in Brentwood Tennessee, took me forty years to find, while being through countless subpar service providers, who incorrectly diagnosed my problems, provided me the wrong medications, and failed to provide me with any meaningful help. That caused me frustration beyond compare with the mental health industry and ultimately caused me to give up on seeking help for roughly twenty years of my life.
My mental health relationships in Brentwood Tennessee, were the first and only time in my life they actually felt as if they “fit” my challenges and helped my life “work” better.
Unfortunately, all of that was lost in the blink of an eye, once I no longer had a home or a sustainable life in Middle Tennessee. To this day, I don’t know how to articulate the impact this had upon compounding the damages caused to me and my family by the bad actors as they annihilated every other pillar of independence, support, identity, home, belonging, sustainability, stability, security, and safety, which I had in my life.
This was the closest that I will ever come to death and still survive. I guarantee it!
At what point can we start holding the bad actors accountable, while protecting the public safety and health of others, suffering needlessly, often in silence (in fear of further retaliation), throughout middle Tennessee? It’s time!
Predatory Litigation―101 is available at TNInjustice.org.